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

Morell V. When the bat sings. Science 2014; 344: 1334–1337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ye C, Tsukruk VV. Materials assembly. Designing two-dimensional materials that spring rapidly into three-dimensional shapes. Science 2015; 347: 130–131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelechano V, Wei W, Steinmetz LM. Extensive transcriptional heterogeneity revealed by isoform profiling. Nature 2013; 497: 127–131.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Müller J et al. Optical peaking enhancement in high-speed ring modulators. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A. Voice Over LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

Fløistad G (ed.). Philosophy of Religion. 1st ed. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Adams AE. Relocating the Contributions to Ethnography and Public Anthropology of Antonio Goubaud Carrera (1902–1951), Guatemala’s First Official Indigenist. In: Nash JC, Buechler HC (eds). Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America: The Effects of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, NY, 2016, pp 67–88.

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

Davis J. China Has Been Dramatically Underreporting Coal Consumption. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-under-reported-coal-consumption-17-percent-it-might-not-all-be-doom-and-gloom/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Federal Highway Administration FY 1992 Budget Request and Highway Program Reauthorization Proposal. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rooks DL. Science for all: Experiences and outcomes of students with visual impairment in a guided inquiry-based classroom. 2009.

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

Lear S. Beyond the Edge of the World. New York Times. 2011; : BR11.

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