How to format your references using the New Zealand Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Dental Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Zoback MD (2000). Earth science. Strength of the San Andreas. Nature 405:31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padian K, Dial KP (2005). Origin of flight: Could “four-winged” dinosaurs fly? Nature 438:E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong T, Linn MC, Zacharia ZC (2013). Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340:305–308.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Taylor GJ, Luu T, Ball D, Srinivasan MV (2013). Vision and air flow combine to streamline flying honeybees. Scientific reports 3:2614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller JM (2009). Chromatography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schmid A, Goel S, Wang W, Beiu V, Carrara S, editors (2009). Nano-Net: 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Lucerne, Switzerland, October 18-20, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carr CT (2016). An Uncertainty Reduction Approach to Applicant Information-Seeking in Social Media: Effects on Attributions and Hiring. In RN Landers and GB Schmidt, editors Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 59–78.

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 New Zealand Dental Journal.

Blog post

Fang J (2015). Ancient Two-Faced Fish Suggests Our Ancestor Wasn’t Shark-Like. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-two-faced-fish-suggests-our-ancestor-wasnt-shark/ [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

Government Accountability Office (2015). Technology Assessment: Water in the Energy Sector: Reducing Freshwater Use in Hydraulic Fracturing and Thermoelectric Power Plant Cooling. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hatton H (2013). How Rural Elementary Building Principals Conceptualize the Programs in Their Schools, the Processes of Connecting Students to Programs, and Their Leadership Role in Doing So. [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Leland J (2017). Waiting. New York Times:MB7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Zoback, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zoback, 2000; Padian and Dial, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Padian and Dial, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Taylor et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Dental Journal
ISSN (print)	0028-8047
Scope