How to format your references using the Operative Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Operative Dentistry. 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

Strogatz SH (2001) Exploring complex networks Nature 410(6825) 268–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goonetilleke N, & McMichael AJ (2013) Immunology. Antigen processing takes a new direction Science 340(6135) 937–938.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu J, Gong P, & Zhou X (2014) The association between romantic relationship status and 5-HT1A gene in young adults Sci Rep 4 7049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Syntichaki P, Xu K, Driscoll M, & Tavernarakis N (2002) Specific aspartyl and calpain proteases are required for neurodegeneration in C. elegans Nature 419(6910) 939–944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolbarst AB, Capasso P, & Wyant AR (2013) Medical Imaging John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ichalkaranje N, Ichalkaranje A, & Jain LC (eds) (2006) Intelligent Paradigms for Assistive and Preventive Healthcare Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wickström B-A (2007) Fairness, Rights, and Language Rights: On the Fair Treatment of Linguistic Minorities In: Baake P, & Borck R (eds) Public Economics and Public Choice: Contributions in Honor of Charles B. Blankart Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 81–101.

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 Operative Dentistry.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Priceless Specimens Destroyed In A Fire At India’s Natural History Museum IFLScience. Retrieved online October 30, 2018 from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/priceless-specimens-destroyed-fire-indias-natural-history-museum/.

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 (1996) Summary of Selected GAO Reports U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva JA (2010) Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Walsh MW (2012) California Debt Higher Than Earlier Estimates, a Task Force Reports New York Times A18.

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	Operative Dentistry
Abbreviation	Oper. Dent.
ISSN (print)	0361-7734
ISSN (online)	1559-2863
Scope	General Dentistry