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]

Benderly BL. Not your father’s postdoc. Science 2005;308:717–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Leek JT, Peng RD. Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg. Nature 2015;520:612.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Llopart A, Elwyn S, Coyne JA. Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila. Nature 2002;419:360; discussion 360.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Puthalakath H, Villunger A, O’Reilly LA, Beaumont JG, Coultas L, Cheney RE, et al. Bmf: a proapoptotic BH3-only protein regulated by interaction with the myosin V actin motor complex, activated by anoikis. Science 2001;293:1829–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Glisic SG. Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Heupel M, Reinold T, editors. The Rule of Law in Global Governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Agarwal R, O’Regan D, Saker S. Halanay Inequalities. In: O’Regan D, Saker S, editors. Dynamic Inequalities On Time Scales, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 215–28.

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]

Andrew E. Massive New Study Suggests The Pill Has Prevented 200,000 Cases of Womb Cancer. IFLScience 2015.

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sawant KG. A Chemo-Physical Model for Predicting Post Fracking Pressure Buildup in Pierre Shale. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Koblin J. E!, a Mainstay on the Red Carpet, Buys the People’s Choice Awards. New York Times 2017:B4.

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