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

Margolis Helen S. Physics. How big is the proton? Science 2013;339(6118):405–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Divakaruni Ajit S., Murphy Anne N. Cell biology. A mitochondrial mystery, solved. Science 2012;337(6090):41–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimizu George K. H., Taylor Jared M., Kim Sirim. Chemistry. Proton conduction with metal-organic frameworks. Science 2013;341(6144):354–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sureshkumar Sridevi, Todesco Marco, Schneeberger Korbinian, Harilal Ramya, Balasubramanian Sureshkumar, Weigel Detlef. A genetic defect caused by a triplet repeat expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 2009;323(5917):1060–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca Livius, Eckert Heiner. Phosgenations - A Handbook. Weinheim, FRG; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: 2005.

An edited book

Kusuoka Shigeo, Maruyama Toru, editors. Advances in Mathematical Economics Volume 19. vol. 19. Tokyo; Springer Japan: 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenberg Ira, Xu Dianna, Kumar Deepak. Creating Across Time and Curved Space. In: Xu Dianna, Kumar Deepak, editors. Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2. Berkeley, CA; Apress: 2013. p. 107–47.

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

Andrews Robin. El Niño Has Definitely Ended, But Climate Change Nightmares Are Here To Stay. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/el-nino-definitely-ended-climate-change-nightmares-here-stay/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2016.

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. A Working Glossary of Computer Software Terms. Washington, DC; U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blumenfeld Diana B. Policy Making and the U.S. Response to Global HIV/AIDS. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

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

Yoo John. Forget Watergate. Think Iran-Contra. New York Times 2017:A27.

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

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