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

Damasio A. Fundamental feelings. Nature. 2001 Oct 25;413(6858):781.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aebersold R, Mann M. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature. 2003 Mar 13;422(6928):198–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bugreev DV, Mazina OM, Mazin AV. Rad54 protein promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions. Nature. 2006 Aug 3;442(7102):590–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lagos M, Ballhaus C, Münker C, Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser C, Berndt J, Kuzmin DV. The Earth’s missing lead may not be in the core. Nature. 2008 Nov 6;456(7218):89–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lhabitant FS. Hedge Funds. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

Citti G. Harmonic and Geometric Analysis. Grafakos L, Pérez C, Sarti A, Zhong X, editors. Basel: Springer; 2015. IX, 170 p. 19 illus., 12 illus. in color. (Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona).

A chapter in an edited book

Schwarz S, Tyas TH, Prawitasari-Hadiyono JE. Methodological Basis of a Culture-Specific Coping Approach. In: Zaumseil M, Schwarz S, von Vacano M, Sullivan GB, Prawitasari-Hadiyono JE, editors. Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters: The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 129–52.

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. This Galactic Nursery Is A Window To The Past. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galactic-nursery-window-past/

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. Farmers Home Administration Needs To Better Plan, Direct, Develop, and Control Its Computer-Based Unified Management Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Feb. Report No.: CED-78-68.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kay K. A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Walsh MW. Peter Mullen, Power at a Leading Law Firm, Dies at 83. New York Times. 2011 Oct 19;B19.

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