How to format your references using the The Saudi Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Saudi Dental Journal. 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

Konner, M., 2004. The ties that bind. Nature 429, 705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vert, G., Chory, J., 2006. Downstream nuclear events in brassinosteroid signalling. Nature 441, 96–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryant, P., Nunes, T., Snaith, R., 2000. Children learn an untaught rule of spelling. Nature 403, 157–158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lengronne, A., Katou, Y., Mori, S., Yokobayashi, S., Kelly, G.P., Itoh, T., Watanabe, Y., Shirahige, K., Uhlmann, F., 2004. Cohesin relocation from sites of chromosomal loading to places of convergent transcription. Nature 430, 573–578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCall, M.W., 2010. Classical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shirahata, S., Ikura, K., Nagao, M., Ichikawa, A., Teruya, K. (Eds.), 2009. Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT), Kyoto, Japan, September 25-28, 2006, Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen, T., Phung, D., Adams, B., Venkatesh, S., 2012. Emotional Reactions to Real-World Events in Social Networks, in: Cao, L., Huang, J.Z., Bailey, J., Koh, Y.S., Luo, J. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining: PAKDD 2011 International Workshops, Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–64.

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 Saudi Dental Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Lessons From Cuba on Eliminating the Transmission of HIV From Mother to Child [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lessons-cuba-eliminating-transmission-hiv-mother-child/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1986. ADP, IRM & Telecommunications, 1985 (No. IMTEC-86-9). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Becker, L.A., 2010. Noncredit to credit transitions: The role of cultural capital and habitus for adult immigrant learners in the community college (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Williams, J., 2017. Ruminations on the Inquiring Mind. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Konner, 2004; Vert and Chory, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Vert and Chory, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lengronne et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Saudi Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Saudi Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	1013-9052
Scope	General Dentistry