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]

Nurse P. Wee beasties. Nature 2004;432:557.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang MH, vom Saal FS. Maternal age and traits in offspring. Nature 2000;407:469–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Browne J, Tunnacliffe A, Burnell A. Anhydrobiosis: plant desiccation gene found in a nematode. Nature 2002;416:38.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mandal SM, Migliolo L, Silva ON, Fensterseifer ICM, Faria-Junior C, Dias SC, et al. Controlling resistant bacteria with a novel class of β-lactamase inhibitor peptides: from rational design to in vivo analyses. Sci Rep 2014;4:6015.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Summers N. Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Duddy K, Kappel G, editors. Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: 6th International Conference, ICMT 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 18-19, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 7909. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Joó B, Kalamkar DD, Vaidyanathan K, Smelyanskiy M, Pamnany K, Lee VW, et al. Lattice QCD on Intel® Xeon PhiTM Coprocessors. In: Kunkel JM, Ludwig T, Meuer HW, editors. Supercomputing: 28th International Supercomputing Conference, ISC 2013, Leipzig, Germany, June 16-20, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 40–54.

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. Spectacular Photograph Shows Earliest Stars That Formed In Our Universe. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-generation-stars-universe/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Surface Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Krisher J. Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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

[1]

Qiu L. Across the Spectrum, Conspiracy Talk Is Rife. New York Times 2017:A22.

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