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

Sanderson K (2007) Display of flexibility Nature 445(7127) 473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz JH, & Tattersall I (2015) ANTHROPOLOGY. Defining the genus Homo Science 349(6251) 931–932.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eilken HM, Nishikawa S-I, & Schroeder T (2009) Continuous single-cell imaging of blood generation from haemogenic endothelium Nature 457(7231) 896–900.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sharma S, Sarkar S, Paul SS, Roy S, & Chattopadhyay K (2013) A small molecule chemical chaperone optimizes its unfolded state contraction and denaturant like properties Sci Rep 3 3525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernstein L, & Yuhas CM (2005) Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative Software Engineering John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bianchini M, Maggini M, Scarselli F, & Jain LC (eds) (2009) Innovations in Neural Information Paradigms and Applications Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Afonso A (2009) The Domestic Regulation of Transnational Labour Markets: EU Enlargement and the Politics of Labour Migration in Switzerland and Ireland In: Bruszt L, & Holzhacker R (eds) The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe Springer US, New York, NY 83–106.

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

Luntz S (2014) Rampaging Elephant Smashes House, Then Rescues Crying Baby IFLScience. Retrieved online October 30, 2018 from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rampaging-elephant-smashes-house-then-rescues-crying-baby/.

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 (1986) The Status of Telecommunications Efforts in the General Accounting Office 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

Lingley-Papadopoulos CA (2008) Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hollander S (2008) A Sisterhood Lays a Foundation in Football New York Times D2.

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