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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dental Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Butler D. Agent Orange health investigation stuck at square one. Nature. 2003;422(6934):793.

A journal article with 2 authors

Humphries MJ, Mould AP. Structure. An anthropomorphic integrin. Science. 2001;294(5541):316-317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chouard T, Weiss U, Dhand R. Good “omics” for the poor? Nature. 2002;419(6906):489.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Corces MR, Granja JM, Shams S, et al. The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers. Science. 2018;362(6413).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halbich IW. Cape Fold Belt‐Agulhas Bank Transect Across Gondwana Suture, Southern Africa. American Geophysical Union; 1993:46.

An edited book

Pitilakis K, Franchin P, Khazai B, Wenzel H, eds. SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Facilities: Methodology and Applications. Vol 31. Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Emmett S. Toward a Pedagogy of Well-Being for Early Childhood Pre-Service Educators. In: Wilson JZ, ed. Pedagogies for the Future: Leading Quality Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. SensePublishers; 2013:27-38.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. Restoring And Conserving Nature In The Anthropocene Means Changing Our Idea Of Success. IFLScience. September 7, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/restoring-and-conserving-nature-anthropocene-means-changing-our-idea-success/

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. Centralized Subsystem for Paying Officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bontrager JG. Characterization and Applications for A Polymerized DiaCEST Contrast Agent. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 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

Wines M. Win for Voting Rights Advocates, but Battles Are Ahead. New York Times. May 17, 2017:A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Dental Sciences
ISSN (print)	1991-7902
Scope