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

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

Symington LS. 2014. DNA repair: Making the cut. Nature. 514(7520):39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Groisman A, Steinberg V V. 2000. Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow. Nature. 405(6782):53–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh KD, Evans AR, Jernvall J. 2007. Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development. Nature. 449(7161):427–432.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hermann JC, Marti-Arbona R, Fedorov AA, Fedorov E, Almo SC, Shoichet BK, Raushel FM. 2007. Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function. Nature. 448(7155):775–779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallios WS. 2010. Forecasting in Financial and Sports Gambling Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Feng H, Barbosa-Canovas G, Weiss J, editors. 2011. Ultrasound Technologies for Food and Bioprocessing. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer (Food Engineering Series).

A chapter in an edited book

Law GR, Baxter PD, Gilthorpe MS. 2012. Selection Bias in Epidemiologic Studies. In: Tu Y-K, Greenwood DC, editors. Modern Methods for Epidemiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 57–71.

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 Journal of Dental Research.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015 Jul 13. Hibernating Bears Could Teach us About Long-Distance Space Travel. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hibernating-bears-could-teach-us-about-long-distance-space-travel/.

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. 1995. USDA Telecommunications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: AIMD-95-219R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lenz RM. 2017. Iron, Arsenic, and Elevated Salinity in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer of Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana.

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

Greenhouse L. 2006 Feb 22. Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea. New York Times.:A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Symington 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Groisman and Steinberg 2000; Symington 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Groisman and Steinberg 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hermann et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dental Research
Abbreviation	J. Dent. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-0345
ISSN (online)	1544-0591
Scope	General Dentistry