How to format your references using the Journal of Periodontal Research citation style

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

Golombek MP. Planetary science. The surface of Mars: not just dust and rocksScience 2003; 300: 2043–2044.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin SG, St Johnston D. A role for Drosophila LKB1 in anterior-posterior axis formation and epithelial polarityNature 2003; 421: 379–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peiris JSM, Poon LLM, Guan Y. Public health. Surveillance of animal influenza for pandemic preparednessScience 2012; 335: 1173–1174.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bouvier LC, Costa MM, Connelly JN, et al. Evidence for extremely rapid magma ocean crystallization and crust formation on MarsNature 2018; 558: 586–589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voit B, Haag R, Appelhans D, Welzel PB. Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.

An edited book

Christenson SL, Reschly AL, Wylie C, eds. Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Castro AJM, Rocha AP, Oliveira E. The System Design In: Rocha AP, Oliveira E, eds. A New Approach for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014: 85–122.

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 Periodontal Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. An Animal That Could Rewrite The Family Tree: One Of The Top New Species Of 2015. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animal-could-rewrite-family-tree-one-top-new-species-2015/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. Computer-Based Patient Records: Subcommittee Questions Concerning VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of Health Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poland MC. New cluster-based routing and multi-channel MAC protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 2010. Doctoral dissertation.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Air-Show Officials Face TrialNew York Times2002;A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (3,5,7,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Periodontal Research
Abbreviation	J. Periodontal Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3484
ISSN (online)	1600-0765
Scope	Periodontics