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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dental Traumatology (JDT). 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

Funk CD. Prostaglandins and leukotrienes: advances in eicosanoid biology. Science. 2001;294:1871–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harrison SA, Tong F. Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas. Nature. 2009;458:632–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang F, Chen X, Vitousek P. Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature. 2013;497:33–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wilhelm BT, Marguerat S, Watt S, Schubert F, Wood V, Goodhead I, et al. Dynamic repertoire of a eukaryotic transcriptome surveyed at single-nucleotide resolution. Nature. 2008;453:1239–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins D. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Kaslow RA, Stanberry LR, Le Duc JW, eds. Viral Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control. 5th ed. 2014. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Shabat A. Symmetries of Spectral Problems. In: Mikhailov AV, ed. Integrability. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009:139–73.

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 Traumatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Mouse vs. Scorpion- Who Do You Think Wins? IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mouse-vs-scorpion-who-do-you-think-wins/. 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Transportation Security: TSA Could Strengthen Oversight of Allegations of Employee Misconduct. GAO-13-756T; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; July 31, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prakash A. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975). Doctoral Dissertation; Columbia University; 2010.

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

Davey M, Walsh MW. Plan on Repaying Debt Is Presented to Detroit’s Creditors. New York Times, January 30, 2014, 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 Traumatology
ISSN (print)	1600-4469
ISSN (online)	1600-9657
Scope