How to format your references using the The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. 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

Mann ME. Climate reconstruction. The value of multiple proxies. Science. 2002;297(5586):1481-1482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melosh HJ, Collins GS. Planetary science: Meteor Crater formed by low-velocity impact. Nature. 2005;434(7030):157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang L, Lu C, Tieu K. Atomistic simulation of tensile deformation behavior of ∑5 tilt grain boundaries in copper bicrystal. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5919.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie S, Tu L, Han Y, et al. Coherent, atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenide superlattices with engineered strain. Science. 2018;359(6380):1131-1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu W. Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Pennisi A. Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics. Vol 12. (Falzone A, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Donoghue T, Harford J. Secondary School Education in Other Catholic Boys’ Secondary Schools in Ireland, 1922–1962. In: Harford J, ed. Secondary School Education in Ireland: History, Memories and Life Stories, 1922–1967. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016:87-119.

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 Evidence-Based Dental Practice.

Blog post

Andrew E. Uranus’ Unusually Stormy Activity Excites Scientists. IFLScience.

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. Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Changing Requirements, Technical Issues, and Looming Data Gaps Require Focused Attention. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manley Lima MC. Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2014.

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

Hollander S. On Way to Rout, Liberty Wins at the Free-Throw Line. New York Times. June 19, 2000:D4.

In-text citations

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

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	The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice
Abbreviation	J. Evid. Based. Dent. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1532-3382
Scope	General Dentistry