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

Waters AP. Parasitology. Guilty until proven otherwiseScience 2003; 301: 1487–1488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scholl B, Priebe NJ. Neuroscience: The cortical connectionNature 2015; 518: 306–307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Männikkö R, Elinder F, Larsson HP. Voltage-sensing mechanism is conserved among ion channels gated by opposite voltagesNature 2002; 419: 837–841.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu Z, Feldman LC, Tolk NH, Zhang Z, Cohen PI. Desorption of H from Si(111) by resonant excitation of the Si-H vibrational stretch modeScience 2006; 312: 1024–1026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions in an Electromagnetic Field. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Korolev GV. Three-Dimensional Free-Radical Polymerization: Cross-Linked and Hyper-Branched Polymers. Mogilevich MM, ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Krauss W. Anthropology in the Anthropocene: Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Interdisciplinary Research In: Greschke H, Tischler J, eds. Grounding Global Climate Change: Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015: 59–76.

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. Frogs Go Berserk Over Worm Video. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/frogs-go-berserk-over-worm-video/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. Research Evidence Concerning Bilingual Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Irving AV. Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University, 2017. 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

Brantley B. A Flock of Shylocks Descends ..New York Times2017;C2.

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 (3,4).
This sentence cites four references (5–8).

About the journal

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