How to format your references using the Pediatric Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric 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	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

[1]

Haberland H. Looking from both sides. Nature 2013;494:E1-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Filardi CE, Moyle RG. Single origin of a pan-Pacific bird group and upstream colonization of Australasia. Nature 2005;438:216–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paul JW, West JP, Gitler AD. Cell Biology. Clogging information flow in ALS. Science 2014;345:1118–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yoshimaru T, Komatsu M, Tashiro E, Imoto M, Osada H, Miyoshi Y, et al. Xanthohumol suppresses oestrogen-signalling in breast cancer through the inhibition of BIG3-PHB2 interactions. Sci Rep 2014;4:7355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Geisser S. Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference: Geisser/Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Darling A, Stoye J, editors. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 13th International Workshop, WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-4, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 8126. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beccuti M, Franceschinis G, Kaâniche M, Kanoun K. Multi-level Dependability Modeling of Interdependencies between the Electricity and Information Infrastructures. In: Setola R, Geretshuber S, editors. Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 48–59.

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 Pediatric Dental Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Republicans Set To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/republicans-set-sell-33-million-acres-public-land/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Charter Schools: To Enhance Education’s Monitoring and Research, More Charter School-Level Data Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gross J. High-performance dram system design constraints and considerations. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

[1]

Ruiz RR, Schmidt MS. Sessions Steers Clear of Trump’s ‘Joke’ on the Use of Force by the Police. New York Times 2017:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Pediatric Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	0917-2394
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Dentistry (miscellaneous)