How to format your references using the Tanta Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tanta Dental Journal. 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

[1]

Lackner KS. Climate change. A guide to CO2 sequestration. Science 2003;300:1677–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chiappe LM, Bertelli S. Palaeontology: skull morphology of giant terror birds. Nature 2006;443:929.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Villegas P, Moretti P, Muñoz MA. Frustrated hierarchical synchronization and emergent complexity in the human connectome network. Sci Rep 2014;4:5990.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Scheerer P, Park JH, Hildebrand PW, Kim YJ, Krauss N, Choe H-W, et al. Crystal structure of opsin in its G-protein-interacting conformation. Nature 2008;455:497–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Griskey RG. Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Lenaerts B. Omnidirectional Inductive Powering for Biomedical Implants. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Adebola PO. Cola. In: Kole C, editor. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Plantation and Ornamental Crops, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 63–71.

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 Tanta Dental Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. The Science Of Laughter – And Why It Also Has A Dark Side. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-science-of-laughter-and-why-it-also-has-a-dark-side/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Testing Guide (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.21). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Karlen DJ. The Biocomplexity of Benthic Communities Associated with a Shallow-water Hydrothermal System in Papua New Guinea. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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

[1]

Kishkovsky S. 2 Russian Churches, Split by War, Reuniting. New York Times 2007:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Tanta Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Tanta Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	1687-8574
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