How to format your references using the Pediatric Dentistry Case Reports citation style

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

Byatt AS. Fiction informed by science. Nature. 2005;434(7031):294-297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petronczki M, Uhlmann F. Cell biology. ESCRTing DNA at the cleavage site during cytokinesis. Science. 2012;336(6078):166-167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Do-Monte FH, Quiñones-Laracuente K, Quirk GJ. A temporal shift in the circuits mediating retrieval of fear memory. Nature. 2015;519(7544):460-463.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nystul TG, Goldmark JP, Padilla PA, Roth MB. Suspended animation in C. elegans requires the spindle checkpoint. Science. 2003;302(5647):1038-1041.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nomura S. Micromechanics with Mathematica. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Glimm B, Krüger A, eds. KI 2012: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 35th Annual German Conference on AI, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012. Proceedings. Vol 7526. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Biesele M. The Nyae Nyae Village Schools Project: Indigenous Community-Based Education in Namibia. In: Johnson DJ, Agbényiga DL, Hitchcock RK, eds. Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. Springer; 2013:41-52.

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 Pediatric Dentistry Case Reports.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researchers Catch Octopus Cannibalism On Film. IFLScience. September 24, 2014.

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. Transition From School to Work: States Are Developing New Strategies to Prepare Students for Jobs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith AP. The Leadership Potential of School Librarians. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2013.

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

Saslow L. Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes. New York Times. September 23, 2006:LI2.

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	Pediatric Dentistry Case Reports
ISSN (print)	2352-5894
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