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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Implant 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Gershon D. Thinking big Texas. Nature. 2005;434:1160–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ju T, Cummings RD. Protein glycosylation: chaperone mutation in Tn syndrome. Nature. 2005;437:1252.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lyons JR, Lewis RS, Clayton RN. Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science. 2009;324:1516;author reply 1516.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Burnett K, Julienne PS, Lett PD, Tiesinga E, Williams CJ. Quantum encounters of the cold kind. Nature. 2002;416:225–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cooke R. The History of Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Antoniac I, editor. Biologically Responsive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Simeon M, Hilderman RJ, Hamilton HJ. Mining Interesting Correlated Contrast Sets. In: Bramer M, Petridis M, editors. Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIX: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XX Proceedings of AI-2012, The Thirty-second SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer; 2012. p. 49–62.

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 Implant Dentistry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. A New State Of Matter: Quantum Spin Liquids Explained [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-state-matter-quantum-spin-liquids-explained/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Efforts Generally Strong but Face Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Sep. Report No.: GAO-06-1091T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Quick TD. Faith-based charter school success at education ground zero [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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

1. Walsh MW. With Suit, Hedge Funds Seek to Freeze the Assets of a Top Puerto Rico Bank. New York Times. 2016 Apr 5;B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Implant Dentistry
Abbreviation	Int. J. Implant Dent.
ISSN (online)	2198-4034
Scope