How to format your references using the Journal of Prosthodontics citation style

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

Abbott A: Cognition: The brain’s decline Nature 2012;492:S4-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Slee EA, Lu X: Requirement for phosphorylation of P53 at Ser312 in suppression of chemical carcinogenesis Sci Rep 2013;3:3105

A journal article with 3 authors

Park S, Vohs JM, Gorte RJ: Direct oxidation of hydrocarbons in a solid-oxide fuel cell Nature 2000;404:265–267

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stern SA, Weaver HA, Steffl AJ, et al.: A giant impact origin for Pluto’s small moons and satellite multiplicity in the Kuiper belt Nature 2006;439:946–948

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke W, Díez Muiño R: Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013

An edited book

Stephanidis C (ed): Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity: 5th International Conference, UAHCI 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009. Proceedings, Part I. Vol 5614. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2009

A chapter in an edited book

Silva Filho WJ: Intersubjectivity: Commentary on Intersubjectivity, in Marsico G (ed): Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities. Cultural Psychology of Education. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 65–72

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 Prosthodontics.

Blog post

Taub B: Study Reveals How The Brain “Rebuilds” Itself In An Attempt To Cure Schizophrenia. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-reveals-how-brain-rebuilds-itself-attempt-cure-schizophrenia/. Accessed 10/30/2018. Available at

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: Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Charpentier DT: Why Dey Talk Like Dat?: A Study of the Status of Cajun English as a Dialect or an Accent [Doctoral dissertation]. Lafayette, LA, University of Louisiana, 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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF: Batman Beats Superman In the Marketplace. New York Times

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 Prosthodontics
ISSN (print)	1059-941X
ISSN (online)	1532-849X
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