How to format your references using the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry. 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

McCaffrey R. Geophysics. The next great earthquake. Science. 2007 Mar 23;315(5819):1675–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger HL 3rd, DeSoto KA. Cognitive psychology. Forgetting the presidents. Science. 2014 Nov 28;346(6213):1106–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koo B, Nottenburg C, Pardey PG. Intellectual property. Plants and intellectual property: an international appraisal. Science. 2004 Nov 19;306(5700):1295–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jaime M, Movshovich R, Stewart GR, Beyermann WP, Berisso MG, Hundley MF, et al. Closing the spin gap in the Kondo insulator Ce3Bi4Pt3 at high magnetic fields. Nature. 2000 May 11;405(6783):160–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D. The Psychology of Retirement. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Kim C. High-Bandwidth Memory Interface. Lee H-W, Song J, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lu Z, Qu Y, Qiao S. Reference Ellipsoid and the Geodetic Coordinate System. In: Qu Y, Qiao S, editors. Geodesy: Introduction to Geodetic Datum and Geodetic Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 165–263.

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 European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Can Civilisation Continue? An Earth System Scientist Explains. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Support for Development of Electronics and Materials Technologies by the Governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Sep. Report No.: RCED-85-63.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schaper P. Meaning making: Learning in whistle blowing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Lee L. Modernist Birds Can Roost Here. New York Times. 2014 Jun 11;D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McCaffrey 2007).
This sentence cites two references (McCaffrey 2007; Roediger and DeSoto 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Roediger and DeSoto 2014)
Three or more authors: (Jaime et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry
Abbreviation	Eur. Arch. Paediatr. Dent.
ISSN (print)	1818-6300
ISSN (online)	1996-9805
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Dentistry (miscellaneous)