How to format your references using the The Journal of Indian Prosthodontic Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Indian Prosthodontic Society. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Perkel JM. Scientific writing: the online cooperative. Nature. 2014 Oct 2;514(7520):127–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grasset EK, Cerutti A. Immunology. Retroviral help for B cells. Science. 2014 Dec 19;346(6216):1454–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos MD, Dorogovtsev SN, Mendes JFF. Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 24;4:4436.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Soma S, Shimegi S, Suematsu N, Sato H. Cholinergic modulation of response gain in the rat primary visual cortex. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan 31;3:1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertau M, Müller A, Fröhlich P, Katzberg M. Industrielle Anorganische Chemie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Mullen KD, Prakash RK, editors. Hepatic Encephalopathy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012. XIV, 250 p. (Clinical Gastroenterology).

A chapter in an edited book

Baglioni P, Chelazzi D, Giorgi R. Deacidification of Paper, Canvas and Wood. In: Chelazzi D, Giorgi R, editors. Nanotechnologies in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage: A compendium of materials and techniques. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 117–44.

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 Indian Prosthodontic Society.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Charon’s Cracks Formed During Ancient Near-Misses With Other Worlds. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/charons-cracks-formed-during-ancient-near-misses-other-worlds/

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. Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 May. Report No.: HEHS-94-169BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dimapilis B. Service line extension: Acquisition of fluoroscopy equipment to supplement pain management procedures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Vecsey G. Project Turns to Architect It Knows Well. New York Times. 2016 Nov 22;B8.

In-text citations

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

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 Indian Prosthodontic Society
Abbreviation	J. Indian Prosthodont. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0972-4052
ISSN (online)	1998-4057
Scope	General Dentistry Oral Surgery