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

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

Urquhart K. EUROPEAN SCIENCE: U.K. Unveils “Brain Gain” Initiative. Science. 2000;289:713b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nahrendorf M, Swirski FK. Immunology. Neutrophil-macrophage communication in inflammation and atherosclerosis. Science. 2015;349:237–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang B, Chen J, Corlett RT. Factors influencing repeated seed movements by scatter-hoarding rodents in an alpine forest. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4786.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nagai H, Chew SH, Okazaki Y, Funahashi S, Namba T, Kato T, et al. Metamorphosis of mesothelial cells with active horizontal motility in tissue culture. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu X, Ding C, Hu D. Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. Solaris South Tower, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.; 2013.

An edited book

Lu J, Kerre E, eds. A Tribute to Prof. Dr. Da Ruan. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Vincelli P. Technology Transfer in Extension: Experience in the United States of America. In: Hardwick N, Gullino ML, eds. Knowledge and Technology Transfer for Plant Pathology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010:55–8.

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 Traumatology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Mars Is Still Losing Water But Not Continuously. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-is-still-losing-water-but-not-continuously/. 2016. Accessed October 30, 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. Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs. B-161939; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; August 10, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall S. The use of art therapy to address psychosocial stress among men living with HIV: A grant proposal project. Doctoral Dissertation; California State University, Long Beach; 2011.

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

Hodara S. Unseen Ingredients: Cash, and Lots of Time. New York Times, August 28, 2016, WE9.

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	Journal of Dental Traumatology
ISSN (print)	1600-4469
ISSN (online)	1600-9657
Scope