How to format your references using the Journal of Dental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dental 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

Goodnow CC. 2006. Immunology. Discriminating microbe from self suffers a double toll. Science. 312(5780):1606–1608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman AS, Byers JE. 2006. Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations. Science. 313(5788):831–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander RB, Smith RA, Schwarz GE. 2000. Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico. Nature. 403(6771):758–761.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang BJ, Hwang T, Nam J-D, Suhr J, Kim KJ. 2014. Noncovalently assembled nanotubular porous layers for delaying of heating surface failure. Sci Rep. 4:6817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams T, Turton V. 2014. Trading Economics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ziaja W, editor. 2016. Transformation of the natural environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) since the 1980s. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing (SpringerBriefs in Geography).

A chapter in an edited book

Richter HD, Hays SR. 2011. Demographics of Chronic Pain in Children. In: McClain BC, Suresh S, editors. Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice. New York, NY: Springer. p. 45–61.

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 Journal of Dental Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016 Dec 9. Meteorites Reveal How Old Jupiter Really Is. 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. 2002. School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-02-752.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kazadi MM. 2013. Use of Data Fusion and SPC in Vibrations Detection [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University.

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

Crow K. 2002 Mar 17. An Esteemed Seminary’s Earthly Concern: The Endowment Shrinks, but Bills Persist. New York Times.:144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Goodnow 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman and Byers 2006; Goodnow 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Freeman and Byers 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dental Research
Abbreviation	J. Dent. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-0345
ISSN (online)	1544-0591
Scope	General Dentistry