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]

Pearson H. China caught out as model shows net fall in fish. Nature 2001;414:477.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hekimi S, Guarente L. Genetics and the specificity of the aging process. Science 2003;299:1351–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kersten S, Desvergne B, Wahli W. Roles of PPARs in health and disease. Nature 2000;405:421–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

van Stelten J, Silva F, Belin D, Silhavy TJ. Effects of antibiotics and a proto-oncogene homolog on destruction of protein translocator SecY. Science 2009;325:753–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hwang R-BR. Periodic Structures. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Di Bitetto M, Chymis A, D’Anselmi P, editors. Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility: The Economic Bottom Line of Government. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kindscher K, Wittenberg R. The Naming and Classification of Echinacea Species. In: Kindscher K, editor. Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 37–45.

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]

Andrew E. Why Is This Comet Shaped Like A Duck? IFLScience 2015.

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. Truck Safety: Information on Driver Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rountree BL. Theory and practice of dynamic voltage /frequency scaling in the high performance computing environment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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]

Crow K. Dreading the Thin Envelope. New York Times 2003:145.

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)