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]

Balter M. Cancer research. Transatlantic war over BRCA1 patent. Science 2001;292:1818.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bonn D, Denn MM. Materials science. Yield stress fluids slowly yield to analysis. Science 2009;324:1401–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ. Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science 2008;321:1817–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vaquero A, Scher M, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Serrano L, Reinberg D. SIRT1 regulates the histone methyl-transferase SUV39H1 during heterochromatin formation. Nature 2007;450:440–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Scott DW. Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. vol. 4805. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Powell AB, Borge IC, Fioriti GI, Kondratieva M, Koublanova E, Sukthankar N. Challenging Tasks and Mathematics Learning. In: Taylor PJ, Barbeau EJ, editors. Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI Study, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 133–70.

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]

Andrew D. Will AI Spell The End Of Humanity? The Tech Industry Wants You To Think So. IFLScience 2016.

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. Increased Compliance Needed With Nursing Home Health and Sanitary Standards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pasricha LA. North African women in Spain: Dreams and reality, identity and belonging. 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

[1]

Vecsey G. For Mets, Gloom and Doom Instead of Sunshine and Smiles. New York Times 2010:SP7.

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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