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

Bender E. Big data in biomedicine: 4 big questions. Nature. 2015;527(7576):S19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray AW, Marks D. Can sequencing shed light on cell cycling? Nature. 2001;409(6822):844-846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan Y, Yu D, Yao YG. Tree shrew database (TreeshrewDB): a genomic knowledge base for the Chinese tree shrew. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7145.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li B, Ibrahim M, Ge M, et al. Transcriptome analysis of Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae cultivated in vivo and co-culture with Burkholderia seminalis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Technical Planning for On-Site Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1995.

An edited book

Hakeem KR, Ahmad P, Ozturk M, eds. Crop Improvement: New Approaches and Modern Techniques. Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee YJ. Been There, Done That, or Have We? In: Roth WM, ed. Re/Structuring Science Education: ReUniting Sociological and Psychological Perspectives. Cultural Studies of Science Education. Springer Netherlands; 2010:53-57.

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

Andrew E. Timelapse Of Tarantula Molting Looks Like Alien Birth. IFLScience. December 9, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantula-molting-looks-alien-birth/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Risk of Serious Disruption to Essential Government Functions Calls for Agency Action Now. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tafoya A. Impact of HIV/AIDS Stigma on Seropositive Latinos along the United States-Mexico Border. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Schwirtz M, Rashbaum WK. Rikers Deemed Too Dangerous For Inmates Outside New York. New York Times. May 5, 2017:A1.

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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