How to format your references using the Dentistry Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dentistry 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bonvillian, W.B. Technology. Advanced Manufacturing Policies and Paradigms for Innovation. Science 2013, 342, 1173–1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yarger, J.L.; Wolf, G.H. Chemistry. Polymorphism in Liquids. Science 2004, 306, 820–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershman, S.J.; Horvitz, E.J.; Tenenbaum, J.B. Computational Rationality: A Converging Paradigm for Intelligence in Brains, Minds, and Machines. Science 2015, 349, 273–278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gray, N.S.; MacCulloch, M.J.; Smith, J.; Morris, M.; Snowden, R.J. Forensic Psychology: Violence Viewed by Psychopathic Murderers. Nature 2003, 423, 497–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

von Eye, A.; Mun, E.-Y. Log-Linear Modeling; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118391778.

An edited book

Lane, J. Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript; Barker, T., Lewis, J.R., Moscovitz, M., Eds.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2012; ISBN 9781430237891.

A chapter in an edited book

Jain, S.; Krishna, S. Can We Recognize an Innovation? Perspective from an Evolving Network Model. In Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life; Meyer-Ortmanns, H., Thurner, S., Eds.; The Frontiers Collection; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 145–172 ISBN 9783642181368.

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 Dentistry Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T. $2.5 Million Worth Of Rare Scientific Books Stolen In “Mission: Impossible-Style Heist” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/25-million-worth-of-rare-scientific-books-stolen-in-mission-impossiblestyle-heist/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 [Comments on Applicability of Vacancies Act to Various Labor and Education Officers]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan, A. The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Kelly, O. The Nation; What the Rosenberg Papers Show The Surprise Final Witness. New York Times 1975, The Week In ReviewE4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Dentistry Journal
Abbreviation	Dent. J.
ISSN (online)	2304-6767
Scope