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.

Organize your papers in one place. Try Paperpile.
No credit card needed

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
Organize your papers in one place. Try Paperpile.
No credit card needed
Paperpile screenshot

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.
Waters AP. Parasitology. Guilty until proven otherwiseScience 2003; 301: 1487–1488.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Scholl B, Priebe NJ. Neuroscience: The cortical connectionNature 2015; 518: 306–307.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
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
1.
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
1.
Prud’Homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions in an Electromagnetic Field. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
An edited book
1.
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
1.
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
1.
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
1.
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
1.
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
1.
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 titleJournal of Periodontal Research
AbbreviationJ. Periodontal Res.
ISSN (print)0022-3484
ISSN (online)1600-0765
ScopePeriodontics

Other styles