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

Rogers JA. Journal club. A materials scientist comments on two methods for three-dimensional nanofabrication. Nature 2010;467:9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salichos L, Rokas A. Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals. Nature 2013;497:327–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gizon L, Duvall TL, Schou J. Wave-like properties of solar supergranulation. Nature 2003;421:43–44.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Packer C, Hilborn R, Mosser A, Kissui B, Borner M, Hopcraft G, Wilmshurst J, Mduma S, Sinclair ARE. Ecological change, group territoriality, and population dynamics in Serengeti lions. Science 2005;307:390–393.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon DL. CISA®. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 03/04/2016

An edited book

Scatena R, editor. Advances in Cancer Biomarkers: From biochemistry to clinic for a critical revision. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Larco N, Kelsey K, West A. Project Checklist. In: Kelsey K, West A (eds). Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2014:87–89.

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

Andrew E. Solar Cells Just A Few Atoms Thick Could Be Possible With New Material [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014;

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. Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 04/25/2008

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conti AI. Dirty hands, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. 2012;

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

Dominus S. Parent Companies. New York Times. 2016;MM46.

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 (4,6–8).

About the journal

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