How to format your references using the Japanese Dental Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Japanese Dental Science Review. 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

[1]

Goodman S. Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature 2001;412:467.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Long MD, Silver PG. The subduction zone flow field from seismic anisotropy: a global view. Science 2008;319:315–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mizukami T, Wallis SR, Yamamoto J. Natural examples of olivine lattice preferred orientation patterns with a flow-normal a-axis maximum. Nature 2004;427:432–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kukushkin IV, Smet JH, von Klitzing K, Wegscheider W. Cyclotron resonance of composite fermions. Nature 2002;415:409–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Positive Displacement Pumps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Page R, Horváth Z, Zsók V, editors. Trends in Functional Programming: 11th International Symposium, TFP 2010, Norman, OK, USA, May 17-19, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 6546. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shirshov AI. On Special J-rings. In: Bokut L, Shestakov I, Latyshev V, Zelmanov E, editors. Selected Works of A.I. Shirshov, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009, p. 27–46.

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 Japanese Dental Science Review.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Terahertz Radiation Breakthrough Could Lead To 100 Times Faster Wireless Networks. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/terahertz-radiation-breakthrough-could-lead-100-times-faster-wireless-networks/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Budgetary and Fiscal Information Needs of the Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gonzalez SE. Ideal leadership practices in Head Start: Understanding leadership from the perspectives of directors and teachers. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Pomfret J. Isolating China doesn’t work. New York Times 2017:0.

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	Japanese Dental Science Review
Abbreviation	Jpn. Dent. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1882-7616
Scope	General Dentistry