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]

Cui W. Astronomy. Very energetic gamma rays from microblazars. Science 2005;309:714–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lum L, Clevers H. Cell biology. The unusual case of Porcupine. Science 2012;337:922–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Huang L, Treisman A, Pashler H. Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science 2007;317:823–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yang Z-H, Zhuo Y, Chai Y-Q, Yuan R. High throughput immunosenor based on multi-label strategy and a novel array electrode. Sci Rep 2014;4:4747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Eggert H, Kauschke W. Structural Bearings. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Reimer P, Parizel PM, Meaney JFM, Stichnoth FA, editors. Clinical MR Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McIntosh-Smith S, Boulton M, Curran D, Price J. On the Performance Portability of Structured Grid Codes on Many-Core Computer Architectures. In: Kunkel JM, Ludwig T, Meuer HW, editors. Supercomputing: 29th International Conference, ISC 2014, Leipzig, Germany, June 22-26, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 53–75.

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. You Can Watch Brown Bears Fish For Salmon In Alaska LIVE On These Free Cameras. 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. Overview of the Adult Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program and Its Operation in California. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mylonas A. “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis. 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]

Crow K. Meters Are Running, And Hawking, Too. New York Times 2002:146.

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