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

Aubert, J., 2015. PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science 349, 475–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, S.W., Ahn, J.-P., 2013. Polycrystalline nanowires of gadolinium-doped ceria via random alignment mediated by supercritical carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 3, 1606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamsir, A., Tabor, J.J., Voigt, C.A., 2011. Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical “wires.” Nature 469, 212–215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sancho, D., Joffre, O.P., Keller, A.M., Rogers, N.C., Martínez, D., Hernanz-Falcón, P., Rosewell, I., Reis e Sousa, C., 2009. Identification of a dendritic cell receptor that couples sensing of necrosis to immunity. Nature 458, 899–903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spatschek, K.-H., 2011. High Temperature Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Corchado, E., Yin, H., Botti, V., Fyfe, C. (Eds.), 2006. Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006: 7th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

del Pilar Agustín Llach, M., Fontecha, A.F., 2014. Lexical Variation in Learners’ Responses to Cue Words: The Effect of Gender, in: Jiménez Catalán, R.M. (Ed.), Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language, Educational Linguistics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–81.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. A March For Science Will Take Place Around The World On April 22. Here’s How To Get Involved [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-march-for-science-will-take-place-around-the-world-on-april-22-heres-how-to-get-inolved/ (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, 2017. Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring (No. GAO-17-266). 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

Corbets, J.B., 2017. Evaluating System Architecture Quality and Architecting Team Performance Using Information Quality Theory (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Markoff, J., 2016. A Would-Be Father of A.I. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aubert, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Aubert, 2015; Kim and Ahn, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Ahn, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sancho et al., 2009)

About the journal

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