How to format your references using the Operative Dentistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Operative Dentistry. 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

Harvey CF (2002) Groundwater flow in the Ganges Delta Science 296(5573) 1563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chopra HD, & Wuttig M (2015) Non-Joulian magnetostriction Nature 521(7552) 340–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froese T, Iizuka H, & Ikegami T (2014) Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: a minimalist virtual reality experiment Sci Rep 4 3672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brennecka GA, Weyer S, Wadhwa M, Janney PE, Zipfel J, & Anbar AD (2010) 238U/235U variations in meteorites: extant 247Cm and implications for Pb-Pb dating Science 327(5964) 449–451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kondrashov AS (2017) Crumbling Genome John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ascoli GA, Hawrylycz M, Ali H, Khazanchi D, & Shi Y (eds) (2016) Brain Informatics and Health: International Conference, BIH 2016, Omaha, NE, USA, October 13-16, 2016 Proceedings Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Correll N, & Martinoli A (2006) System Identification of Self-Organizing Robotic Swarms In: Gini M, & Voyles R (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7 Springer Japan, Tokyo 31–40.

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 Operative Dentistry.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Smart Homes Of The Future Could Read And React To Your Emotions IFLScience. Retrieved online October 30, 2018 from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/smart-homes-future-could-read-react-your-emotions/.

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 (1999) Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grantham SC (2014) Dual Eligibles’ Experience of Care in North Carolina’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Branch J (2016) The Deflategate Scientists Unlock Their Lab New York Times SP1.

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	Operative Dentistry
Abbreviation	Oper. Dent.
ISSN (print)	0361-7734
ISSN (online)	1559-2863
Scope	General Dentistry