How to format your references using the Singapore Dental Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Singapore 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

[1]

M.W. Kirschner, Obituary: Reinhart Heinrich (1946-2006), Nature 444 (2006) 700.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Miller, B.C. Douglas, Mass and volume contributions to twentieth-century global sea level rise, Nature 428 (2004) 406–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.L.W. Morgan, J. Strumillo, J. Zimmer, Crystallographic snapshot of cellulose synthesis and membrane translocation, Nature 493 (2013) 181–186.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.G. Vassylyev, S.-I. Sekine, O. Laptenko, J. Lee, M.N. Vassylyeva, S. Borukhov, S. Yokoyama, Crystal structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 2.6 A resolution, Nature 417 (2002) 712–719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.O.A. Rahman, R.Z. Rakhimov, N.R. Rakhimova, M.I. Ojovan, Cementitious Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Meddis, E.A. Lopez-Poveda, R.R. Fay, A.N. Popper, eds., Computational Models of the Auditory System, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Tobin, Biology of Hair Follicle Pigmentation, in: U. Blume-Peytavi, A. Tosti, R.M. Trüeb (Eds.), Hair Growth and Disorders, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 51–74.

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 Singapore Dental Journal.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Don’t Take Selfies With Seals, Warns NOAA, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/noaa-warns-people-not-take-selfies-seals/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, National Airspace System: Comprehensive FAA Plan for Global Positioning System Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Rieger, Phenomenological Exploration of the Characteristics of Successful Women Entrepreneurs, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

[1]

L. Saslow, L.I.R.R. Safety Campaign Under Way, New York Times (2007) LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Singapore Dental Journal
Abbreviation	Singapore Dent. J.
ISSN (print)	0377-5291
Scope	General Dentistry