How to format your references using the British Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Dental Journal. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Rehmann H. Epac-inhibitors: facts and artefacts. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3032.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Opstal EJ, Bordenstein SR. MICROBIOME. Rethinking heritability of the microbiome. Science 2015; 349: 1172–1173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conrad CP, Steinberger B, Torsvik TH. Conrad et al. reply. Nature 2013; 503: E4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ren M et al. Insulin-producing cells from embryonic stem cells rescues hyperglycemia via intra-spleen migration. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7586.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Gleeson K. The Personal Efficiency Program. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

Yamamoto S (ed.). Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction Design: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Vullers P, Alpár G. Efficient Selective Disclosure on Smart Cards Using Idemix. In: Fischer-Hübner S, Leeuw E de, Mitchell C (eds). Policies and Research in Identity Management: Third IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference, IDMAN 2013, London, UK, April 8-9, 2013. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp 53–67.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for British Dental Journal.

Blog post

Hale T. Scientists Have Found A Weird Googly-Eyed Squid On The Seafloor. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-found-a-weird-googlyeyed-squid-on-the-seafloor/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General, Vol. II, No. 1. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shirley A. Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal. 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Shear MD. In Era of Vitriol, Somber Duty Skids Into Spectacle. New York Times. 2017; : A29.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	British Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Br. Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	0007-0610
ISSN (online)	1476-5373
Scope	General Dentistry