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

Fuyuno I. Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market. Nature. 2005;436(7052):775.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean EL, Hare B. Evolution. Dogs hijack the human bonding pathway. Science. 2015;348(6232):280-281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chklovskii DB, Mel BW, Svoboda K. Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature. 2004;431(7010):782-788.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang J, Alexander P, Wu L, Hammer R, Cleaver O, McKnight SL. Dependence of mouse embryonic stem cells on threonine catabolism. Science. 2009;325(5939):435-439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthier J, Brakke KA, Berthier E. Open Microfluidics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Gathen J von Z, Imaña JL, Koç ÇK, eds. Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 2nd International Workshop, WAIFI 2008 Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008 Proceedings. Vol 5130. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Dianteill E. Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern. In: Swartz DL, Zolberg VL, eds. After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration. Springer Netherlands; 2005:65-85.

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. Baby Raccoon Climbs Tree With A Lot Of Help From Its Mom. 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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to Be Justified. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perelygin K. Developing Physics Simulations with OpenCL on a Graphics Processing Unit. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Gorman J. Figaro, the Toolmaking Cockatoo. New York Times. November 21, 2016:D3.

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