How to format your references using the Evidence-Based Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evidence-Based 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	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

Metzger TH. Applied physics. Squeezing x-ray photons. Science 2002; 297: 205–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheehan MJ, Tibbetts EA. Specialized face learning is associated with individual recognition in paper wasps. Science 2011; 334: 1272–1275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okada D, Ozawa F, Inokuchi K. Input-specific spine entry of soma-derived Vesl-1S protein conforms to synaptic tagging. Science 2009; 324: 904–909.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martrat B, Grimalt JO, Shackleton NJ, de Abreu L, Hutterli MA, Stocker TF. Four climate cycles of recurring deep and surface water destabilizations on the Iberian margin. Science 2007; 317: 502–507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker G, Thomson D. Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

Páez A, Gallo J, Buliung RN, Dall’erba S (eds.). Progress in Spatial Analysis: Methods and Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapin JK. Hardware Implementation. In: Chapin JK, Gerhardt GA, McFarland DJ et al. (eds). Brain-Computer Interfaces: An International Assessment of Research and Development Trends. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008, pp 65–79.

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 Evidence-Based Dentistry.

Blog post

Hamilton K. The Legal Minefield Of 3D Printed Guns. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-legal-minefield-of-3d-printed-guns/ (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. Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But IRS Has Not Yet Corrected Management and Technical Weaknesses. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davidson WB. High school athletics and the “whole adolescent”: A case study of three urban high schools. 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

Santora M, Baker AL. Workers Search for Victims Amid Pockets of Fire. New York Times. 2015; : A16.

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	Evidence-Based Dentistry
Abbreviation	Evid. Based. Dent.
ISSN (print)	1462-0049
ISSN (online)	1476-5446
Scope	General Dentistry