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

Youle RJ. Cell biology. Cellular demolition and the rules of engagement. Science. 2007;315(5813):776-777.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feau S, Schoenberger SP. Immunology. Ex uno plura. Science. 2009;323(5913):466-467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meza LR, Das S, Greer JR. Strong, lightweight, and recoverable three-dimensional ceramic nanolattices. Science. 2014;345(6202):1322-1326.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pallé E, Goode PR, Montañés-Rodríguez P, Koonin SE. Changes in Earth’s reflectance over the past two decades. Science. 2004;304(5675):1299-1301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan AR, Briggs AH. Statistical Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Asakawa Y. Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics. Vol 95. (Ludwiczuk A, Nagashima F, eds.). Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiang IJ, Lin TY (‘t Y’), Tsai HC, Wong JM, Hu X. Latent Semantic Space for Web Clustering. In: Lin TY, Xie Y, Wasilewska A, Liau CJ, eds. Data Mining: Foundations and Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer; 2008:61-77.

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

Carpineti A. New Method Helps Astronomers Directly Image Exoplanets Around Distant Stars. IFLScience.

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. Space Situational Awareness: Status of Efforts and Planned Budgets. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramirez C. A Policy Analysis: Assembly Bill 1421 or Laura’s Law. 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

Feeney K. An Homage to France. New York Times. July 5, 2009:NJ9.

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