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]

Ottino JM. Is a picture worth 1,000 words? Nature 2003;421:474–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Adler SL, Bassi A. Physics. Is quantum theory exact? Science 2009;325:275–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rappuoli R, Miller HI, Falkow S. Medicine. The intangible value of vaccination. Science 2002;297:937–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rawashdeh O, de Borsetti NH, Roman G, Cahill GM. Melatonin suppresses nighttime memory formation in zebrafish. Science 2007;318:1144–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davis JH. Statistics for Compensation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Icelandic Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tan L. A Residual Energy-Based Fairness Scheduling MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Gao H, Lim L, Wang W, Li C, Chen L, editors. Web-Age Information Management: 13th International Conference, WAIM 2012, Harbin, China, August 18-20, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 35–46.

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]

Carpineti A. Crystals Found In Siberian Crater Are Unlike Anything Else Found On Earth. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-have-found-the-third-ever-natural-quasicrystal-/ (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. Procedures for Making Grant Awards Under Three Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grefe SE. Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Herrman J. What Will Service Work Look Like Under Amazon? New York Times 2017:MM16.

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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