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]

Savage N. Resources: Mine, all mine! Nature 2013;495:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fyke J, Eby M. Comment on “Climate sensitivity estimated from temperature reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum.” Science 2012;337:1294; author reply 1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wynn TA, Chawla A, Pollard JW. Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease. Nature 2013;496:445–55.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nagarkar SS, Saha T, Desai AV, Talukdar P, Ghosh SK. Metal-organic framework based highly selective fluorescence turn-on probe for hydrogen sulphide. Sci Rep 2014;4:7053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shahidi A. Balanced Asset Allocation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Agrawal A, Britz G, editors. Pediatric Vascular Neurosurgery: Principles and Practice of Neurovascular Disorders (Part 1). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Guipaud O. Serum and Plasma Proteomics and Its Possible Use as Detector and Predictor of Radiation Diseases. In: Leszczynski D, editor. Radiation Proteomics: The effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation on cells and tissues, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 61–86.

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]

Hamilton K. Four Myths About Diabetes Debunked. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/four-myths-about-diabetes-debunked/ (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. Federal Research: DOE Is Providing Independent Review of the Scientific Merit of Its Research. Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Ayvaz MD. Generating Creativity in Teams: An Exploratory Case Study. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

Williams J. Classic Words, Fresh Looks. New York Times 2016:BR4.

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

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