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]

B.K. Sovacool, Diversity: Energy studies need social science, Nature. 511 (2014) 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z. Zou, L.B. Buck, Combinatorial effects of odorant mixes in olfactory cortex, Science. 311 (2006) 1477–1481.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Ekström, M. Nettles, V.C. Tsai, Seasonality and increasing frequency of Greenland glacial earthquakes, Science. 311 (2006) 1756–1758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Okura, K.-I. Miyoshi, J. Irita, D. Enomoto, T. Nagao, M. Kukida, A. Tanino, K. Kudo, Z. Pei, J. Higaki, Hyperhomocysteinemia is one of the risk factors associated with cerebrovascular stiffness in hypertensive patients, especially elderly males, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Zheng, X. Xu, Z. Xu, J. Wang, H. Cai, Metallic Biomaterials, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

B.B. Brumley, J. Röning, eds., Secure IT Systems: 21st Nordic Conference, NordSec 2016, Oulu, Finland, November 2-4, 2016. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Doherty, J. Derrick, Linearizability and Causality, in: R. De Nicola, E. Kühn (Eds.), Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 14th International Conference, SEFM 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 4-8, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 45–60.

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, Moore’s Law Is 50 Years Old But Will It Continue?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/moore-s-law-50-years-old-will-it-continue/ (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, National Weather Service: Budget Events and Continuing Risks of Systems Modernization, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. DeLaney, Youth center for improving health and wellness, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

B. Hubbard, Bomber Hits Courthouse in Damascus, New York Times. (2017) A6.

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

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