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

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

Bohannon J. The Gonzo Scientist. Calling all dancing scientists! Science. 2010 Jun 4;328(5983):1226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsuchiya T, Eulgem T. Mutations in EDM2 selectively affect silencing states of transposons and induce plant developmental plasticity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mani A, Rahwan I, Pentland A. Inducing peer pressure to promote cooperation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1735.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Aoki Y, Endrodi G, Fodor Z, Katz SD, Szabó KK. The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics. Nature. 2006 Oct 12;443(7112):675–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cunningham V. Victorian Poetry Now. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Osaka T, Ogumi Z, editors. Nanoscale Technology for Advanced Lithium Batteries. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. VIII, 273 p. 175 illus., 79 illus. in color. (Nanostructure Science and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Martin Laming J, Hwang U. How Did Cassiopeia A Explode? A Chandra VLP. In: Kyrala GA, editor. High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 33–7.

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 Periodontology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/primitive-meteorites-brought-water-early-earth/

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. EPA Science Advisory Panels: Preliminary Observations on the Processes for Providing Scientific Advice. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 May. Report No.: GAO-15-636T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mahmud S. Comparing the Performance of Bottom-Moored and Unmanned Surface Vehicle Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring Platforms for Marine Mammal Detections [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Qiu L. Election Influence, Separate and Unequal. New York Times. 2017 Jul 12;A16.

In-text citations

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

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 Periodontology
Abbreviation	J. Periodontol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3492
ISSN (online)	1943-3670
Scope