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

Trenberth K. Climate. Uncertainty in hurricanes and global warming. Science 2005; 308: 1753–1754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neale MJ, Keeney S. Clarifying the mechanics of DNA strand exchange in meiotic recombination. Nature 2006; 442: 153–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature 2010; 465: 818–822.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lakatos P, Karmos G, Mehta AD, Ulbert I, Schroeder CE. Entrainment of neuronal oscillations as a mechanism of attentional selection. Science 2008; 320: 110–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg S. Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Haddar M, Romdhane L, Louati J, Ben Amara A (eds.). Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems, CMSM´2013, Djerba, Tunisia, March 25-27, 2013. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Jon C. Polysomnography in Children. In: Pereira KD, Mitchell RB (eds). Pediatric Otolaryngology for the Clinician. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2009, pp 35–47.

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. This Video Plays Tricks on Your Vision. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/video-motion-aftereffect-illusion/ (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. Use of Fixed-Price Contracts for the Procurement of Studies and Investigations of Research and Development Matters. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kaplan CM. Understanding the Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol on the Central Extended Amygdala in Humans. 2017.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Take Case on Navy Use of Sonar. New York Times. 2008; : A17.

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