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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Periodontal 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

Huang AS-H. Follow your noseNature 2004; 428: 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance SA, Sandros MG. Zeptomole detection of C-reactive protein in serum by a nanoparticle amplified surface plasmon resonance imaging aptasensor2014 May 30 Epub.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinervo B, Svensson E, Comendant T. Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selectionNature 2000; 406: 985–988.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zalmout IS, Sanders WJ, Maclatchy LM, et al. New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeysNature 2010; 466: 360–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrozzi S. Practical Instrumental Analysis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

van der Ark LA, Bolt DM, Wang W-C, Douglas JA, Wiberg M, eds. Quantitative Psychology Research: The 80th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Beijing, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Nichol R. Colonialism and Western Education in Melanesia and Australia In: Nichol R, ed. Growing up Indigenous: Developing Effective Pedagogy for Education and Development. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2011: 83–89.

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 Periodontal Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Eastern Quolls To Be Finally Reintroduced To Mainland Australia After 50 Years Of Extinction. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eastern-quolls-be-finally-reintroduced-mainland-australia-after-50-years/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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bonin C. Spatial and temporal characteristics of electromagnetic activity in the brain prior to reaches to visual targets. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park, 2010. Doctoral dissertation.

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

Gustines GG. In Comics World, Needy Have Heroes Of Their OwnNew York Times2012;F12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (2,5,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Periodontal Research
Abbreviation	J. Periodontal Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3484
ISSN (online)	1600-0765
Scope	Periodontics