How to format your references using the Special Care in Dentistry citation style

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

Whates I. A piratical sabbatical. Nature. 2007 Jul 12;448(7150):224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesner S, Aggarwal VK. Organic chemistry: reactions at the end of a tether. Nature. 2012 Jul 5;487(7405):48–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worobey M, Han GZ, Rambaut A. A synchronized global sweep of the internal genes of modern avian influenza virus. Nature. 2014 Apr 10;508(7495):254–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Buckley MJ, Mansouri FA, Hoda H, Mahboubi M, Browning PGF, Kwok SC, et al. Dissociable components of rule-guided behavior depend on distinct medial and prefrontal regions. Science. 2009 Jul 3;325(5936):52–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev KT. Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Munteanu L. Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics. Donescu S, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. CCCXV, 222 p. (Fundamental Theories of Physics; vol. 143).

A chapter in an edited book

Noor TH, Sheng QZ, Bouguettaya A. Scalable Availability Model. In: Sheng QZ, Bouguettaya A, editors. Trust Management in Cloud Services. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–68.

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 Special Care in Dentistry.

Blog post

Andrews R. Leaked Republican Bill Aims To “Completely Abolish” The EPA [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/leaked-republican-bill-aims-completely-abolish-epa/

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. Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Nov. Report No.: NSIAD-00-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Keels D. An Analysis of the Correlation between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Standardized Test Scores [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

Dominus S. A Dramatist as Dungeon Master. New York Times. 2017 Jun 9;C1.

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	Special Care in Dentistry
Abbreviation	Spec. Care Dentist.
ISSN (print)	0275-1879
ISSN (online)	1754-4505
Scope	General Dentistry