How to format your references using the Journal of Prosthodontics citation style

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

Scodeggio M: Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation Science 2001;294:537–538

A journal article with 2 authors

Schorlemmer D, Wiemer S: Earth science: microseismicity data forecast rupture area Nature 2005;434:1086

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu X, Su Y, Fan ZH: Cotinine concentration in serum correlates with tobacco smoke-induced emphysema in mice Sci Rep 2014;4:3864

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bizzarro M, Ulfbeck D, Trinquier A, et al.: Evidence for a late supernova injection of 60Fe into the protoplanetary disk Science 2007;316:1178–1181

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mainardi RL: Harnessing the Power of Continuous Auditing. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011

An edited book

Marron PJ, Voigt T, Corke P, et al. (eds): Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks: 4th International Workshop, REALWSN 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 16-17, 2010. Proceedings. Vol 6511. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2010

A chapter in an edited book

Ebara M, Kotsuchibashi Y, Uto K, et al.: Smart Surfaces, in Kotsuchibashi Y, Narain R, Idota N, et al. (eds): Smart Biomaterials. NIMS Monographs. Tokyo, Springer Japan, 2014, pp. 115–188

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 Prosthodontics.

Blog post

Luntz S: Smoke From Fires May Spur Stronger Tornadoes. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/smoke-builds-tornadoes/. Accessed 10/30/2018. Available at

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: Deferred Maintenance: Reporting Requirements and Identified Issues. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ackerina J: The call of public service: Motivation and professional commitment in education [Doctoral dissertation]. Boca Raton, FL, Florida Atlantic University, 2012

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

Wines M: It Only Seems That Political Corruption Is Rampant. New York Times

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 Prosthodontics
ISSN (print)	1059-941X
ISSN (online)	1532-849X
Scope