How to format your references using the New Zealand Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Dental Journal. 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

Lauher JW (2011). Chemistry. A versatile molecular trap built from hydrogen-bonded tiles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333:415–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Janak PH, Tye KM (2015). From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala. Nature 517:284–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christodoulides DN, Lederer F, Silberberg Y (2003). Discretizing light behaviour in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices. Nature 424:817–823.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grebmeier JM, Overland JE, Moore SE, Farley EV, Carmack EC, Cooper LW, et al. (2006). A major ecosystem shift in the northern Bering Sea. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:1461–1464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker M (2013). Happy-People-Pills For All. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

An edited book

Gaggioli A (2013). Networked Flow: Towards an Understanding of Creative Networks. G Riva, L Milani, and E Mazzoni, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

El-Kafrawy PM (2012). Solving Classification and Curve Fitting Problems Using Grammatical Evolution. In VV Das, E Ariwa, and SB Rahayu, editors Signal Processing and Information Technology: First International Joint Conference, SPIT 2011 and IPC 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1-2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 29–33.

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 New Zealand Dental Journal.

Blog post

Davis J (2016). Scientists Just Captured Something Extraordinary At The Moment Of Fertilization. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-eggs-spark-moment-fertilization/ [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 (2000). Land Management Systems: Status of BLM’s Actions to Improve Information Technology Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsari F (2015). Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia. [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Coll S (2016). Way Down Under. New York Times:BR20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lauher, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lauher, 2011; Janak and Tye, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Janak and Tye, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Grebmeier et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Dental Journal
ISSN (print)	0028-8047
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