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 (JDR). 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

Joyce GF. 2007. Obituary: Leslie Orgel (1927-2007). Nature. 450(7170):627.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson TL, Jackson GA. 2007. Small phytoplankton and carbon export from the surface ocean. Science. 315(5813):838–840.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharma BR, Manjanath A, Singh AK. 2014. Pentahexoctite: a new two-dimensional allotrope of carbon. Sci Rep. 4:7164.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hariri AR, Mattay VS, Tessitore A, Kolachana B, Fera F, Goldman D, Egan MF, Weinberger DR. 2002. Serotonin transporter genetic variation and the response of the human amygdala. Science. 297(5580):400–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tschannen-Moran B, Tschannen-Moran M. 2010. Evocative Coaching. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Nack F, Gordon AS, editors. 2016. Interactive Storytelling: 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 15–18, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

de Oliveira GS. 2016. Approaches to Scientific Modeling, and the (Non)Issue of Representation: A Case Study in Multi-model Research on Thigmotaxis and Group Thermoregulation. In: Magnani L, Casadio C, editors. Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics). p. 79–100.

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

Luntz S. 2016 Jun 7. Deep Sea Species Mystery Partially Explained. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deep-sea-species-mystery-partially-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

Government Accountability Office. 2013. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Further Actions Needed to Address Challenges and Improve Accountability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-13-557.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carpenter DM. 2009. Understanding the effect of conflicting information on medication adherence for vasculitis patients [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina.

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

Kishkovsky S. 2004 Feb 6. Fabergé Eggs May Be Shown In City Where Czar Was Killed. New York Times.:E3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joyce 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Joyce 2007; Richardson and Jackson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Richardson and Jackson 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hariri et al. 2002)

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