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

Tata, J., 2004. The domino effect. Nature 431, 513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell, B.B., Spiegelman, B.M., 2000. Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis. Nature 404, 652–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chiou, P.Y., Ohta, A.T., Wu, M.C., 2005. Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images. Nature 436, 370–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winkler, W.C., Nahvi, A., Roth, A., Collins, J.A., Breaker, R.R., 2004. Control of gene expression by a natural metabolite-responsive ribozyme. Nature 428, 281–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davison, M., 2011. Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen, C., 2014. Wireless Sensor Networks: Distributed Consensus Estimation, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Friesen, N., Jakob, M., Kindermann, J., Maassen, D., Poigné, A., Rüping, S., Trabold, D., 2014. The Dicode Data Mining Services, in: Karacapilidis, N. (Ed.), Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making: Research and Practical Applications in the Dicode Project, Studies in Big Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 89–118.

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, D., 2016. Why Don’t Plants Get Sunburn? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-dont-plants-get-sunburn/ (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, 1992. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public Benefits, but Challenges Remain (No. RCED-93-16). 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

Felder Derkacs, A.D., 2010. The role of desmin in the signaling response to mechanical stretch of skeletal muscle (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. School Life. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tata, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lowell and Spiegelman, 2000; Tata, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lowell and Spiegelman, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Winkler et al., 2004)

About the journal

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