Dental Resources

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sample Article Citations:

Elani HW, Starr JR, Da Silva JD, Gallucci GO.Trends in dental implant use in the U.S., 1999-2016, and projections to 2026. J Dent Res. 2018;97(13):1424-30.

Veena HR, Mahantesha S, Joseph PA, Patil SR, Patil SH. Dissemination of aerosol and splatter during ultrasonic scaling: a pilot study. J Infect Public Health. 2015;8(3):260-65.

Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.

Brief Guidelines:

• List all authors, last name first, then first initial and middle initial, if available, separate each author by a comma.
• List full article title, capitalize only first word and any proper nouns.
• Abbreviate journal title according to NLM Catalog of Journals.
• Put year first, followed by month and date, if listed.  End with semicolon.
• Put volume and issue (optionally, issue may be omitted if pagination continues for each issue). Do not add space after semicolon.  End with colon.
• Indicate page number range.  Do not repeat numbers or put a space after colon.  i.e. if page range is 1235 through 1237, record as 1235-7.

BOOKS

Sample Book Citations:

France RC. Introduction to sports medicine and athletic training. 2nd ed. Clifton Park (NY): Delmar Cengage Learning; 2011. 695 p.

Kendall FP, McCreary EK, Provance PG, Rodgers MM, Romani WA. Muscles: testing and function with posture and pain. 5th ed. Baltimore (MD): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005. 480 p.

Book with Editor and No Author:

Gilstrap LC 3rd, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten JP, editors. Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002.

Brief Guidelines:

• List all authors, last name first, then first initial and middle initial, if available, separate each author by a comma.
• List full book title, capitalize only first word and any proper nouns.
• List edition next, abbreviating edition as ed.
• Indicate the place of publication, followed by a colon and then the publisher, followed by a semi-colon.
• Add the year of publication, followed by a period.
• Put in the pagination, followed by a p and then a period.

WEBSITES

Sample Website with full authors' names:

D'Alessandro, Donna M.; D'Alessandro, Michael P. Virtual Pediatric Hospital™: a digital library of pediatric information [Internet]. [Iowa City (IA)]: Donna M. D'Alessandro; c1992-2007 [revised 2006 Jul 20; cited 2007 Feb 20]. Available from: http://www.virtualpediatrichospital.org/.

Sample Homepage with no authors or editors:

StatePublicHealth.org [Internet]. Washington: ASTHO; [cited 2007 Feb 23]. Available from: http://statepublichealth.org/.

Sample Homepage with an organization as author:

Gene Ontology Consortium. the Gene Ontology [Internet]. [place unknown]: the Gene Ontology; c1999-2007 [cited 2007 Feb 22]. Available from: http://www.geneontology.org/.

NLM Style offers a bit of flexibility on how to cite in-text.  You may choose from the following three styles:

• Author-Year system (Items in order alphabetically by author’s last name, then year of publication)
  • Example at end of sentence: (Johnson 2011)
• Sequence system (Items in order of appearance in text)
  • […] last day¹.
• Author-sequence system (Items in order alphabetically by author’s last name, then year of publication)
  • […] last day¹.