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

Cuomo S. Beyond the ivory tower. The sinews of war: ancient catapults. Science. 2004 Feb 6;303(5659):771–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnston KP, Shah PS. Materials science. Making nanoscale materials with supercritical fluids. Science. 2004 Jan 23;303(5657):482–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bleichert F, Botchan MR, Berger JM. Crystal structure of the eukaryotic origin recognition complex. Nature. 2015 Mar 19;519(7543):321–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yancopoulos GD, Davis S, Gale NW, Rudge JS, Wiegand SJ, Holash J. Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation. Nature. 2000 Sep 14;407(6801):242–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seeber P, Shander A. Basics of Blood Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Lichtfouse E, Schwarzbauer J, Robert D, editors. Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World: Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XX, 548 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Glare TR. Use of Pathogens for Eradication of Exotic Lepidopteran Pests in New Zealand. In: Hajek AE, Glare TR, O’Callaghan M, editors. Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 49–69.

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

Hale T. The World’s Oldest Cave Paintings Made From Dots Found In France. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Weather Forecasting: Systems Architecture Needed for National Weather Service Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Mar. Report No.: AIMD-94-28.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dorrance AM. The Role of the Partial Tandem Duplication of MLL (MLL PTD) in Leukemogenesis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Says Bush Is Afraid Of Debating “Man to Man.” New York Times. 1992 Sep 19;16.

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

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