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

Lane J. Science innovation. Assessing the impact of science funding. Science. 2009;324(5932):1273-1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sourjik V, Berg HC. Functional interactions between receptors in bacterial chemotaxis. Nature. 2004;428(6981):437-441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson RW, Boyet M, Horan M. Chondrite barium, neodymium, and samarium isotopic heterogeneity and early Earth differentiation. Science. 2007;316(5828):1175-1178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun F, Park KK, Belin S, et al. Sustained axon regeneration induced by co-deletion of PTEN and SOCS3. Nature. 2011;480(7377):372-375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barton LL, Northup DE. Microbial Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Goldberg DJ, ed. Laser Dermatology. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Soffer P, Rolland C. Combining Intention-Oriented and State-Based Process Modeling. In: Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, eds. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2005:47-62.

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

Hale T. Earthquake Scientists Have Lost Their Favorite Curb In San Francisco. IFLScience.

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. Higher Education: Trustee Arrangements Serve Useful Purpose in Student Loan Market. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Croghan A. The Effects of Depressive Symptomatology, Intrusive Thinking, and Age on Cognitive Functioning. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Protess B. G.O.P.’s Paths to Unraveling Wall Street Rules From Obama Era. New York Times. January 31, 2017:A19.

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