How to format your references using the Dentistry Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dentistry 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

Meyer, A. George C. Williams (1926-2010). Nature 2010, 467, 790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoegh-Guldberg, O.; Bruno, J.F. The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marine Ecosystems. Science 2010, 328, 1523–1528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dekas, A.E.; Poretsky, R.S.; Orphan, V.J. Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia. Science 2009, 326, 422–426.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gartner, Z.J.; Tse, B.N.; Grubina, R.; Doyon, J.B.; Snyder, T.M.; Liu, D.R. DNA-Templated Organic Synthesis and Selection of a Library of Macrocycles. Science 2004, 305, 1601–1605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J.R. Detecting Fraud in Organizations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118555972.

An edited book

Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan; Syed, J., Pio, E., Kamran, T., Zaidi, A., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; ISBN 9781349949656.

A chapter in an edited book

Clemente, F.M.; Martins, F.M.L.; Mendes, R.S. Meso Level of Analysis: Subgroups in Teams. In Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis; Martins, F.M.L., Mendes, R.S., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 65–70 ISBN 9783319258546.

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 Dentistry Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T. High Levels Of Fecal Bacteria Found On KFC’s Ice Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/high-levels-bacteria-poop-found-kfcs-ice/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cheng, L. SiC Thin-Films on Insulating Substrates for Robust MEMS Applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

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

Wines, M.; Williams, T. Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant. New York Times 2014, A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Dentistry Journal
Abbreviation	Dent. J.
ISSN (online)	2304-6767
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