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

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

Levitin C. New Russian science head named. Nature 2000;405(6787):601.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atencia Javier, Beebe David J. Controlled microfluidic interfaces. Nature 2005;437(7059):648–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suvà Mario L., Riggi Nicolo, Bernstein Bradley E. Epigenetic reprogramming in cancer. Science 2013;339(6127):1567–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ringbauer Martin, Fedrizzi Alessandro, Berry Dominic W., White Andrew G. Information causality in the quantum and post-quantum regime. Sci Rep 2014;4:6955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau Eric, Adali Tülay. Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals. Hoboken, NJ USA; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2013.

An edited book

Das Arnab, Chakrabarti Bikas K., editors. Quantum Annealing and Other Optimization Methods. vol. 679. Berlin, Heidelberg; Springer: 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

DeStefano Stephen. Wildlife Corridors and Developed Landscapes. In: Esparza Adrian X., McPherson Guy, editors. The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe. New York, NY; Springer: 2009. p. 85–102.

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 Journal for Dental Research.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. A Melting Arctic Demands More – Not Less – Research On Earth Science. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/melting-arctic-demands-more-not-less-research-earth-science/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Hazardous Materials: Federal Training for First Responders to Highway and Railroad Incidents. Washington, DC; U.S. Government Printing Office: 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramberg Kathleen S. L’envers et l’endroit: The other side of the cloth. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 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

Branch John. A Coming-Home Party 40 Years in the Making. New York Times 2015:SP8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Saudi Journal for Dental Research
Abbreviation	Saudi J. Dent. Res.
ISSN (print)	2352-0035
Scope	General Dentistry