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

Bunk Steve. Tearing down the barriers. Nature 2002;416(6880):4–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zwiers F. W., Weaver A. J. CLIMATE CHANGE: The Causes of 20th Century Warming. Science 2000;290(5499):2081–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishikawa Hiroki, Ma Zhe, Barber Glen N. STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature 2009;461(7265):788–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mauk B. H., Clarke J. T., Grodent D., Waite J. H. Jr, Paranicas C. P., Williams D. J. Transient aurora on Jupiter from injections of magnetospheric electrons. Nature 2002;415(6875):1003–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Southard Thomas E., Marshall Steven D., Bonner Laura L. Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. Hoboken, NJ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: 2015.

An edited book

Deer Timothy R., Pope Jason E., editors. Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management. 2nd ed. 2016. New York, NY; Springer: 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hilty Lorenz M. Ethical Issues in Ubiquitous Computing—Three Technology Assessment Studies Revisited. In: Kinder-Kurlanda Katharina, Ehrwein Nihan Céline, editors. Ubiquitous Computing in the Workplace: What Ethical Issues? An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cham; Springer International Publishing: 2015. p. 45–60.

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. The Theory Of Parallel Universes Is Not Just Maths – It Is Science That Can Be Tested. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/theory-parallel-universes-not-just-maths-it-science-can-be-tested/. 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. University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated. Washington, DC; U.S. Government Printing Office: 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hood Edwin P. Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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

Chira Susan, Alcindor Yamiche. Defiant Yet Jubilant Voices Flood U.S. Cities. New York Times 2017:A1.

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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