How to format your references using the The Journal of Adhesive Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Adhesive 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

Harden N. Cell biology. Of grainy heads and broken skins. Science 2005;308:364–365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pan RK, Fortunato S. Author Impact Factor: tracking the dynamics of individual scientific impact. Sci Rep 2014;4:4880.

A journal article with 3 authors

Veizer J, Godderis Y, François LM. Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon. Nature 2000;408:698–701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sirajuddin M, Farkasovsky M, Hauer F, Kühlmann D, Macara IG, Weyand M, Stark H, Wittinghofer A. Structural insight into filament formation by mammalian septins. Nature 2007;449:311–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spatschek K-H. High Temperature Plasmas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 11/16/2011

An edited book

Jurisica I, Wigle DA, Wong B, editors. Cancer Informatics in the Post Genomic Era: Toward Information-Based Medicine. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007

A chapter in an edited book

Fujii H, Sugihara K. Properties and an Approximation Algorithm of Round-Tour Voronoi Diagrams. In: Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Anton F (eds). Transactions on Computational Science IX: Special Issue on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010:109–122.

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 The Journal of Adhesive Dentistry.

Blog post

Hale T. What Will Humans Look Like In 1,000 Years? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015;

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. Highway Safety: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Implement Changes in the Highway Safety Improvement Program Since SAFETEA-LU. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 07/17/2008

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ploehs JR. The literacy benefits of middle school tutors who tutor emergent readers. 2009;

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

Vlasic B, Chapman MM. Fiat Chrysler and U.A.W. Reach Deal, With Bigger Raise at Entry Level. New York Times. 2015;B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (2,4,7,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Adhesive Dentistry
ISSN (print)	1461-5185
ISSN (online)	1757-9988
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