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

Marciano WJ. Particle physics: quarks are not ambidextrous. Nature. 2014;506(7486):43-44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Newman DK, Banfield JF. Geomicrobiology: how molecular-scale interactions underpin biogeochemical systems. Science. 2002;296(5570):1071-1077.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shultz S, Opie C, Atkinson QD. Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates. Nature. 2011;479(7372):219-222.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hiratsuka T, Furihata K, Ishikawa J, et al. An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms. Science. 2008;321(5896):1670-1673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langley-Evans S. Nutrition, Health and Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Sebillo M, Vitiello G, Schaefer G, eds. Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management: 10th International Conference, VISUAL 2008, Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. Proceedings. Vol 5188. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Hagemann TM, Lewis TV. Iron as a Drug and Drug–Drug Interactions. In: Yehuda S, Mostofsky DI, eds. Iron Deficiency and Overload: From Basic Biology to Clinical Medicine. Humana Press; 2010:77-91.

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

O`Callaghan J. How The Universe’s Brightest Galaxies Became So Bright. IFLScience. Published September 23, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-universes-brightest-galaxies-became-so-bright/

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. Impact of Funding on Materials R&D Programs in the Departments of Energy and Commerce, and NASA Since FY 1980. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moon MM. The Needs of Korean-American and Korean Families of Children with Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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

Milhollin G, Motz K. Nukes “R” Us. New York Times. March 4, 2004:A29.

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