How to format your references using the Journal of Dentistry citation style

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

[1]

E.S. Lander, Genome-sequencing anniversary. The accelerator, Science. 331 (2011) 1024.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Crida, S. Charnoz, Formation of regular satellites from ancient massive rings in the solar system, Science. 338 (2012) 1196–1199.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.M. Dally, N.J. Emery, N.S. Clayton, Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when, Science. 312 (2006) 1662–1665.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Martinon, V. Pétrilli, A. Mayor, A. Tardivel, J. Tschopp, Gout-associated uric acid crystals activate the NALP3 inflammasome, Nature. 440 (2006) 237–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Castillo, A. Cobo, F. Jubete, R.E. Pruneda, Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1999.

An edited book

[1]

Q. Chen, Secure Transaction Protocol Analysis: Models and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Hara, Y. Kato, G. Ichinose, S. Irle, QM/MD Simulations of High-Temperature SWCNT Self-capping, in: J. Zeng, R.-Q. Zhang, H.R. Treutlein (Eds.), Quantum Simulations of Materials and Biological Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 53–68.

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 Dentistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Cancer Abducts Your Immune Cells – and What We Can Do About It, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-cancer-abducts-your-immune-cells-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Radioactive Sources: Opportunities Exist for Federal Agencies to Strengthen Transportation Security, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.T. Manners, Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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

[1]

M. Kelly, THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Seeking Better Image, Perot Shifts Campaign, New York Times. (1992) A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Dentistry
Abbreviation	J. Dent.
ISSN (print)	0300-5712
Scope	General Dentistry