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

Watanabe M. Material gains. Nature 2004;432:532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillips GN, Evans KA. Role of CO2 in the formation of gold deposits. Nature 2004;429:860–863.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morais-Cabral JH, Zhou Y, MacKinnon R. Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K+ selectivity filter. Nature 2001;414:37–42.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang X, Fu W, Palivan CG, Meier W. Natural channel protein inserts and functions in a completely artificial, solid-supported bilayer membrane. Sci Rep 2013;3:2196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimball R, Ross M. The Kimball Group Reader. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 12/30/2015

An edited book

Goh C-K, Ong Y-S, Tan KC, editors. Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009

A chapter in an edited book

Bohigas O, Manubens M, Ros L. Navigating the Wrench-Feasible C-Space of Cable-Driven Hexapods. In: Bruckmann T, Pott A (eds). Cable-Driven Parallel Robots. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013:53–68.

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

Davis J. Scientists Engineer Bacteria To Replicate Color Photographs [Internet]. 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. NASA Performance Awards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 09/23/1980

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schroder GL. A quantitative study of critical thinking skills in bachelors of science nursing program students. 2015;

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 D. Unplugged. New York Times. 2001;723.

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 (3,4).
This sentence cites four references (4–6,8).

About the journal

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