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

Dahl-Jensen D. CLIMATE CHANGE: Enhanced: The Greenland Ice Sheet Reacts. Science. 2000 Jul 21;289(5478):404–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellwood MDF, Foster WA. Doubling the estimate of invertebrate biomass in a rainforest canopy. Nature. 2004 Jun 3;429(6991):549–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moser DE, Flowers RM, Hart RJ. Birth of the Kaapvaal tectosphere 3.08 billion years ago. Science. 2001 Jan 19;291(5503):465–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kinoshita T, Miura A, Choi Y, Kinoshita Y, Cao X, Jacobsen SE, et al. One-way control of FWA imprinting in Arabidopsis endosperm by DNA methylation. Science. 2004 Jan 23;303(5657):521–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl S. Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Shukla G, Varma A, editors. Soil Enzymology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XVI, 384 p. 75 illus., 6 illus. in color. (Soil Biology; vol. 22).

A chapter in an edited book

Bu H, Kim J, Kim S. The Digital Video Frame Obfuscation Method in Consideration of Human Visual System for Intellectual Property Protection and Authentication. In: Park JJ (jong H, Zomaya A, Jeong HY, Obaidat M, editors. Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 37–42. (Lecture Notes in Electrical 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 E. New Drug Delivery System Could Replace Injections [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-drug-delivery-system-could-replace-injections/

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. Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of American Airlines and US Airways. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Jun. Report No.: GAO-13-403T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zacher B. The roles of electrode contacts in organic photovoltaics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2013.

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

St. John Kelly E. F.Y.I. New York Times. 1995 Jan 29;132.

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