How to format your references using the International Journal of Dental Science and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Dental Science and Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kyewski B. Immunology. A breath of Aire for the periphery. Science. 2008;321(5890):776-777.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee BW, Clark NA. Alignment of liquid crystals with patterned isotropic surfaces. Science. 2001;291(5513):2576-2580.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trail D, Watson EB, Tailby ND. The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere. Nature. 2011;480(7375):79-82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ren S, Wang Y, Yue F, et al. The paraventricular thalamus is a critical thalamic area for wakefulness. Science. 2018;362(6413):429-434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paschedag AR. CFD in Der Verfahrenstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Sodhi MS, Tang CS, eds. A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science: The Past and the Future. Vol 148. Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartzman S. Academic Drift in Brazilian Education. In: Maldonado-Maldonado A, Bassett RM, eds. The Forefront of International Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach. Higher Education Dynamics. Springer Netherlands; 2014:61-72.

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 International Journal of Dental Science and Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researcher who Faked HIV Vaccine Trial Data gets 4 Year Jail Sentence. IFLScience. July 2, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/4-year-jail-sentence-researcher-who-faked-hiv-vaccine-trial-data/

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. Review of Yolo County, California, Economic Opportunity Commission Concerning Matters Affecting Local Poverty Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Toothaker RD. A Phenomenological Study of Millennial Students and Traditional Pedagogies. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

Saslow L. Oyster Bay Villages Create 2 Emergency Centers. New York Times. February 25, 2007:14LI2.

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	International Journal of Dental Science and Research
ISSN (print)	2213-9974
Scope