How to format your references using the Journal of Prosthodontic Research citation style

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

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.

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]
Lewis K. Antibiotics: Recover the lost art of drug discovery. Nature 2012;485:439–40.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Kuroda H, Maliga P. The plastid clpP1 protease gene is essential for plant development. Nature 2003;425:86–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Hsu A-L, Murphy CT, Kenyon C. Regulation of aging and age-related disease by DAF-16 and heat-shock factor. Science 2003;300:1142–5.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Forgues J-C, Sane FB, Blanchard S, Spietz L, Lupien C, Reulet B. Noise intensity-intensity correlations and the fourth cumulant of photo-assisted shot noise. Sci Rep 2013;3:2869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Bowers D, House A, Owens D. Getting Started in Health Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.
An edited book
[1]
Ganty P, Loreti M, editors. Trustworthy Global Computing: 10th International Symposium, TGC 2015 Madrid, Spain, August 31 – September 1, 2015 Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9533. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Spirin N, Vorontsov K. Learning to Rank with Nonlinear Monotonic Ensemble. In: Sansone C, Kittler J, Roli F, editors. Multiple Classifier Systems: 10th International Workshop, MCS 2011, Naples, Italy, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 16–25.

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 Prosthodontic Research.

Blog post
[1]
Luntz S. Tree Diseases Are Good For The Forest. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tree-diseases-provide-collective-benefit/ (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. Inspectors General: Actions Needed to Improve Audit Coverage of NASA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Kapatsinski V. The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2009.

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]
Rashbaum WK, McKINLEY JC Jr. 106 Are Charged in Lengthy Fraud Over Disabilities. New York Times 2014:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleJournal of Prosthodontic Research
AbbreviationJ. Prosthodont. Res.
ISSN (print)1883-1958
ScopeDentistry (miscellaneous)
Oral Surgery

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