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

Vinge JD. Murphy’s cat. Nature 2000; 408: 649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo T, Hayashi S. Mitotic cell rounding accelerates epithelial invagination. Nature 2013; 494: 125–129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG. Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature 2001; 414: 427–430.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Todesco M, Balasubramanian S, Hu TT et al. Natural allelic variation underlying a major fitness trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 2010; 465: 632–636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hamad WY. Cellulose Nanocrystals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

Nagel WE, Kröner DH, Resch MM (eds.). High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘14: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2014. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Tejchman J, Kozicki J. Theoretical Models. In: Kozicki J (ed). Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp 171–179.

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

Andrew E. Dead Basking Shark Caught and Donated to Museum Victoria. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dead-basking-shark-caught-and-donated-museum-victoria/ (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. Screening Partnership Program: TSA Can Benefit from Improved Cost Estimates. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolzinger R. Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the California Community College System during the financial and labor market crisis. 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

Ember S, Grynbaum MM. How a Retraction Humbled CNN. New York Times. 2017; : B1.

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

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