How to format your references using the Caries Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Caries Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kleiner K: Assault on batteries. Nature 2006;441:1046–1047.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo ME, Huybers P: Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages. Nature 2008;451:284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason N, Biercuk MJ, Marcus CM: Local gate control of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot. Science 2004;303:655–658.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Becker L, Poreda RJ, Hunt AG, Bunch TE, Rampino M: Impact event at the Permian-Triassic boundary: evidence from extraterrestrial noble gases in fullerenes. Science 2001;291:1530–1533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe WB: Modern Grinding Techniques, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Webb SD, editor: First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Force SD, Symbas PN, Symbas NP: Esophagus and Diaphragm; in Wood WC, Staley CA, Skandalakis JE (eds): Anatomic Basis of Tumor Surgery. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2010, pp 265–297.

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 Caries Research.

Blog post

Andrews R: “Mean Girl” Meerkats Reign Over Their Mobs Like Crazed Dictators [Internet]. IFLScience 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mean-girl-meerkats-reign-over-mobs-crazed-dictators/

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: International Space Station: Measurable Performance Targets and Documentation Needed to Better Assess Management of National Laboratory, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cashion AT: Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development 2010;

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

Steinmetz G, Kimmelman M: Floating in the Sky. New York Times 2014;MM32.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Caries Research
Abbreviation	Caries Res.
ISSN (print)	0008-6568
ISSN (online)	1421-976X
Scope	General Dentistry