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

Sutherland WJ. The best solution. Nature. 2005;435(7042):569.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay S, Linstedt AD. Manganese blocks intracellular trafficking of Shiga toxin and protects against Shiga toxicosis. Science. 2012;335(6066):332-335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfennig DW, Harcombe WR, Pfennig KS. Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry. Nature. 2001;410(6826):323.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boulton S, Akimoto M, Selvaratnam R, Bashiri A, Melacini G. A tool set to map allosteric networks through the NMR chemical shift covariance analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merrills J, Fisher J. Pharmacy Law and Practice. Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Borkar VS. Hamiltonian Cycle Problem and Markov Chains. Vol 171. (Ejov V, Filar JA, Nguyen GT, eds.). Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Jowhar D, Janetopoulos C. The Chemotactic Compass. In: Romeralo M, Baldauf S, Escalante R, eds. Dictyostelids: Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology. Springer; 2013:71-87.

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

Andrews R. Justin Trudeau Says Canada Will Implement Carbon Tax To Help Meet Climate Change Targets. IFLScience. October 4, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/justin-trudeau-says-canada-will-implement-carbon-tax-to-help-meet-climate-change-targets/

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. Status of the Marine Corps Integrated Fire and Air Support System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guarin Y. A Postpartum Support Group for Women Experiencing Postpartum Depression: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Mueller B, Baker AL. Commissioner Vows Tighter Bond With the Public. New York Times. October 12, 2016:A20.

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