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

Evans JA. Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship. Science. 2008 Jul 18;321(5887):395–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood BJ, Halliday AN. The lead isotopic age of the Earth can be explained by core formation alone. Nature. 2010 Jun 10;465(7299):767–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent F, Amos LA, Löwe J. Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature. 2001 Sep 6;413(6851):39–44.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rubin C-J, Zody MC, Eriksson J, Meadows JRS, Sherwood E, Webster MT, et al. Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication. Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):587–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes P. The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Ferry B. Stereotaxic Neurosurgery in Laboratory Rodent: Handbook on Best Practices. Gervasoni D, Vogt C, editors. Paris: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Szidarovszky F. Nonlinear Games. In: Chinchuluun A, Pardalos PM, Migdalas A, Pitsoulis L, editors. Pareto Optimality, Game Theory And Equilibria. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 95–117.

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. After The Supermoon, Comes The Supertide [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/after-supermoon-comes-supertide/

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. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Federal Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Expand Their Potential Uses within the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 May. Report No.: GAO-08-511.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richardson C. Edgard Varèse and the Visual Avant-Garde: A Comparative Study of Intégrales and Works of Art by Marcel Duchamp [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2005.

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

Pilon M. Wanted: Snow. Cold. New York Times. 2013 Feb 6;B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2008; Wood and Halliday 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wood and Halliday 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rubin et al. 2010)

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)