How to format your references using the Journal of Pierre Fauchard Academy citation style

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

Korte M. Neuroscience. A protoplasmic kiss to remember. Science. 2008;319(5870):1627-1628.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koch C, Crick F. The zombie within. Nature. 2001;411(6840):893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melcák I, Hoelz A, Blobel G. Structure of Nup58/45 suggests flexible nuclear pore diameter by intermolecular sliding. Science. 2007;315(5819):1729-1732.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang D, Kong L, Fan P, et al. Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor. Science. 2018;362(6412):333-335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massad JJ, Cagna DR, Goodacre CJ, Wicks RA, Ahuja SA. Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Odell J, Giorgini P, Müller JP, eds. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V: 5th International Workshop, AOSE 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 3382. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

McDonald B, McGehee S, Landrum R. Implementing Dashboard-Style Report Objects. In: McGehee S, Landrum R, eds. Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services. Apress; 2012:89-123.

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 Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Blog post

Andrew E. A Christmas Comet To Be Seen From Dark Skies. IFLScience. December 20, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/christmas-comet-be-seen-dark-skies1/

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 and Development Funding: Reported Gap Between Data From Federal Agencies and Their R&D Performers Results From Noncomparable Data. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ruiz-Resto JV. The Effects of Technical and Imagery-Based Instruction on Aspiring Performing Artists’ Acquisition of Learning Newly Composed Pieces and Improvisation and on Listeners’ Perceived Expressivity. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2016.

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

Saslow L. Working to Restore Help for AIDS Patients. New York Times. May 4, 2008:LI5.

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 Pierre Fauchard Academy
Abbreviation	J. Pierre Fauchard Acad.
ISSN (print)	0970-2199
Scope