How to format your references using the International Journal of Dental Science and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Dental Science and Research. 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

Tian P. Research impact: A tale of two systems. Nature. 2015;520(7549):S28-30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgani S, Guzzo L. X-ray clusters of galaxies as tracers of structure in the Universe. Nature. 2001;409(6816):39-45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Su QP, Yang CP, Zheng SB. Fast and simple scheme for generating NOON states of photons in circuit QED. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3898.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ortega-Esteban A, Pérez-Berná AJ, Menéndez-Conejero R, Flint SJ, San Martín C, de Pablo PJ. Monitoring dynamics of human adenovirus disassembly induced by mechanical fatigue. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tjong SC. Polymer Composites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Rangel-Buitrago N. Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain). (Anfuso G, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Do QT, Driscoll M, Slitt A, Seeram N, Peppard TL, Bernard P. Reverse Pharmacognosy: A Tool to Accelerate the Discovery of New Bioactive Food Ingredients. In: Martinez-Mayorga K, Medina-Franco JL, eds. Foodinformatics: Applications of Chemical Information to Food Chemistry. Springer International Publishing; 2014:111-130.

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 International Journal of Dental Science and Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Study Claims $28 Billion A Year Is Spent On Biomedical Research That Can’t Be Reproduced. IFLScience. June 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/28-billion-year-spent-biomedical-research-can-t-be-reproduced/

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. Air Traffic Control: Complete and Enforced Architecture Needed for FAA Systems Modernization. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guarin Y. A Postpartum Support Group for Women Experiencing Postpartum Depression: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Koblin J. Fox Wants Harassment Suit by Host Sent to Arbitration. New York Times. August 30, 2016:B4.

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	International Journal of Dental Science and Research
ISSN (print)	2213-9974
Scope