How to format your references using the Pediatric Dentistry Case Reports citation style

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

Ihde D. Putting technology in its place. Nature. 2000;404(6781):935.

A journal article with 2 authors

Winslow MM, Crabtree GR. Immunology. Decoding calcium signaling. Science. 2005;307(5706):56-57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lemos B, Araripe LO, Hartl DL. Polymorphic Y chromosomes harbor cryptic variation with manifold functional consequences. Science. 2008;319(5859):91-93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cederfjäll E, Nilsson N, Sahin G, et al. Continuous DOPA synthesis from a single AAV: dosing and efficacy in models of Parkinson’s disease. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2157.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin W. Reservoir Engineering in Modern Oilfields. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Dobashi Y, Ochiai H, eds. Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis III: Selected and Extended Results from the Symposium MEIS2015. Vol 24. Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bezdek K. On Minimal Tilings with Convex Cells Each Containing a Unit Ball. In: Bezdek K, Deza A, Ye Y, eds. Discrete Geometry and Optimization. Fields Institute Communications. Springer International Publishing; 2013:45-54.

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 Dentistry Case Reports.

Blog post

Andrews R. Discovery Of The Source Of World’s Largest Methane Pool Is Anything But Good News. IFLScience.

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. Science and Technology: Information on Federal Programs and Interagency Efforts That Support Small Businesses Engaged in Manufacturing. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dill KD. Nonparametric Alternative to Poly-k Test in Animal Tumorigenicity Studies. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Schwartz J. ‘A Conservative Climate Solution’: Republican Group Calls for a Carbon Tax. New York Times. February 8, 2017:A13.

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	Pediatric Dentistry Case Reports
ISSN (print)	2352-5894
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