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:

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

[1]

Bréon F-M. Climate. How do aerosols affect cloudiness and climate? Science 2006;313:623–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hamm JM, Hess O. Physics. Two two-dimensional materials are better than one. Science 2013;340:1298–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Desai TJ, Brownfield DG, Krasnow MA. Alveolar progenitor and stem cells in lung development, renewal and cancer. Nature 2014;507:190–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jones KL, Adekola AS, Bardayan DW, Blackmon JC, Chae KY, Chipps KA, et al. The magic nature of (132)Sn explored through the single-particle states of (133)Sn. Nature 2010;465:454–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

The American Ceramic Society. Progress in Nanotechnology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Sourin A, editors. Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity. vol. 9590. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rolstadås A, Hetland PW, Jergeas GF, Westney RE. Jaywalking with George. In: Hetland PW, Jergeas GF, Westney RE, editors. Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects: Beyond the Myth of Predictability, London: Springer; 2011, p. 55–60.

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]

Andrew E. Teenage Girl in China Grows New Face on Her Chest. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/teenage-girl-china-grows-new-face-her-chest/ (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. Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Orozco M. Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Officials to Testify on Debt Crisis Before Senate Panel. New York Times 2015:B7.

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 title	Journal of Prosthodontic Research
Abbreviation	J. Prosthodont. Res.
ISSN (print)	1883-1958
Scope	Dentistry (miscellaneous) Oral Surgery