How to format your references using the Special Care in Dentistry citation style

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

Geballe TH. Superconductivity. Super boron. Science. 2001 Jul 13;293(5528):223–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Casadevall A, Pirofski LA. Microbiology: Ditch the term pathogen. Nature. 2014 Dec 11;516(7530):165–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piras V, Tomita M, Selvarajoo K. Transcriptome-wide variability in single embryonic development cells. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 20;4:7137.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mattapallil JJ, Douek DC, Hill B, Nishimura Y, Martin M, Roederer M. Massive infection and loss of memory CD4+ T cells in multiple tissues during acute SIV infection. Nature. 2005 Apr 28;434(7037):1093–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari SK. Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Kopřiva J. Temporal Bone CT and MRI Anatomy: A Guide to 3D Volumetric Acquisitions. Žižka J, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XXI, 203 p. 183 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu T, Yuan Y, Yoo JJ. Cell Source for Tissue and Organ Printing. In: Narayan R, Boland T, Lee YS, editors. Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 57–69. (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering).

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 Special Care in Dentistry.

Blog post

Andrew D. How Does The Order In Which You’re Born Affect Your Personality? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-does-order-youre-born-affect-your-personality/

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. Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 May. Report No.: T-AIMD-94-117.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones G. The impact of song on repeated reading: An examination of comprehension, fluency, and engagement with texts of Hispanic second graders in a Title I urban school [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Brantley B. A Perfectly Imperfect Shaggy Fish Story. New York Times. 2017 Jun 9;C4.

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	Special Care in Dentistry
Abbreviation	Spec. Care Dentist.
ISSN (print)	0275-1879
ISSN (online)	1754-4505
Scope	General Dentistry