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

Snow RW (2004). The invisible victims. Nature 430:934–935.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hidaka H, Yoneda S (2013). Radioactive Cs capture in the early solar system. Scientific reports 3:1330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackman JB, Burbridge TJ, Crair MC (2012). Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system. Nature 490:219–225.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yoshida M, Zhang Y, Ye J, Suzuki R, Imai Y, Kimura S, et al. (2014). Controlling charge-density-wave states in nano-thick crystals of 1T-TaS2. Scientific reports 4:7302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius V (2014). Integral and Measure. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wu S, Fan Y, Tian Y, editors (2013). Atlas of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Operations in General Surgery. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Eguchi K, Ochiai N (2014). Movement Disorder and Rehabilitation. In Y Sankai, K Suzuki, and Y Hasegawa, editors Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems. Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 89–98.

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

Andrew E (2014). Fast-Spreading Killers: How Ebola Compares with Other Diseases. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fast-spreading-killers-how-ebola-compares-other-diseases/ [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 (1979). Federal Research Grants: Maintaining Public Accountability Without Inhibiting Creative Research. 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

Peterson NR (2015). Subspecies composition, genetic variation and structure of Largemouth Bass in Puerto Rico reservoirs. [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Choi MHK (2015). LaCroix Sparkling Water. New York Times:MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snow, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Snow, 2004; Hidaka and Yoneda, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hidaka and Yoneda, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida et al., 2014)

About the journal

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