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

Eisenstein M. Microarrays: quality control. Nature. 2006 Aug 31;442(7106):1067–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burdett TC, Freeman MR. Neuroscience. Astrocytes eyeball axonal mitochondria. Science. 2014 Jul 25;345(6195):385–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koedinger KR, Booth JL, Klahr D. Education research. Instructional complexity and the science to constrain it. Science. 2013 Nov 22;342(6161):935–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Randau L, Stanley BJ, Kohlway A, Mechta S, Xiong Y, Söll D. A cytidine deaminase edits C to U in transfer RNAs in Archaea. Science. 2009 May 1;324(5927):657–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi F, Benoist T, Darlay J, Estellon B, Megel R. Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Bezandry PH. Almost Periodic Stochastic Processes. Diagana T, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. XV, 235 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Austin B, Austin DA. Aeromonadaceae Representatives (Motile Aeromonads). In: Austin DA, editor. Bacterial Fish Pathogens: Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 161–214.

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. Cancer-Killing CRISPR Viruses Destroy Their “Command Centers” From Within. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Assessment of Audits of Bilingual Education Grants in Texas by U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984 Dec. Report No.: AFMD-85-6.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saxena M. Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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

Rothenberg B. Hyperactive Latvian ‘Not Afraid of Anything’ Makes Final. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;B11.

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

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