How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Wilcove DS. Ecology. Rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Science. 2005;308(5727):1422-1423.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Zhang M, Schekman R. Cell biology. Unconventional secretion, unconventional solutions. Science. 2013;340(6132):559-561.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Fowler AG, Devitt SJ, Jones C. Surface code implementation of block code state distillation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1939.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Ungar G, Liu Y, Zeng X, Percec V, Cho WD. Giant supramolecular liquid crystal lattice. Science. 2003;299(5610):1208-1211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Beckers B, Beckers P. Reconciliation of Geometry and Perception in Radiation Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.
An edited book
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Hansen JHL, Boyraz P, Takeda K, Abut H, eds. Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety. Springer; 2012.
A chapter in an edited book
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de Leoni M, Marrella A, Russo A. Process-Aware Information Systems for Emergency Management. In: Cezon M, Wolfsthal Y, eds. Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops: International Workshops, OCS, EMSOA, SMART, and EDBPM 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2011:50-58.

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 Indian Journal of Dentistry.

Blog post
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Andrews R. US To Lift Ban On Creating Human-Animal Hybrids For Medical Research. IFLScience. August 5, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-to-lift-ban-on-creating-humananimal-hybrids-for-medical-research/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Commercial Space Launches: FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Chaisson C. An Investigation of Lower Wilcox Group Coals in Portions of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Lasalle, and Rapides Parishes, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2014.

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
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Rohan T. Head Games. New York Times. October 1, 2015:B15.

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 titleIndian Journal of Dentistry
AbbreviationIndian J. Dent.
ISSN (print)0975-962X
Scope

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