How to format your references using the The Saudi Journal for Dental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Saudi Journal for Dental Research (SJDR). 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

Lang Rafael F. Astronomy. Fishing for the universe. Science 2010;327(5973):1582–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luksza Marta, Lässig Michael. A predictive fitness model for influenza. Nature 2014;507(7490):57–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinclair A. R. E., Mduma Simon, Brashares Justin S. Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system. Nature 2003;425(6955):288–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nechaev Sergei, Fargo David C., dos Santos Gilberto, Liu Liwen, Gao Yuan, Adelman Karen. Global analysis of short RNAs reveals widespread promoter-proximal stalling and arrest of Pol II in Drosophila. Science 2010;327(5963):335–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakker Jokie, Clarke Ronald J. Wine Flavour Chemistry. Oxford, UK; Wiley-Blackwell: 2011.

An edited book

Mongardini Massimo, Giofrè Manuel, editors. Management of Fecal Incontinence: Current Treatment Approaches and Future Perspectives. Cham; Springer International Publishing: 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Pfeiffer Helge. Hydration Forces Between Lipid Bilayers: A Theoretical Overview and a Look on Methods Exploring Dehydration. In: Disalvo E. Anibal, editor. Membrane Hydration: The Role of Water in the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes. Cham; Springer International Publishing: 2015. p. 69–104.

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 The Saudi Journal for Dental Research.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. British Man Receives Bionic Eye Implant. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/british-man-receives-bionic-eye-implant-treat-age-related-sight-disease/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Payment to Counties: More Clarity Could Help Ensure County Expenditures Are Consistent with Key Parts of the Secure Rural Schools Act. Washington, DC; U.S. Government Printing Office: 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cornelius Dave A. The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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

Vecsey George. Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, A Star Missed the Signals. New York Times 2013:D1.

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	The Saudi Journal for Dental Research
Abbreviation	Saudi J. Dent. Res.
ISSN (print)	2352-0035
Scope	General Dentistry