Abstract and Key Words : Abstracts are required for all
articles, and should be limited to 250 words typed double-spaced
on a separate page. The abstract should serve as a concise
summary of the manuscript, including objective, methods, results
and conclusions. Abbreviations should not be used in the
abstract. Please provide three to six key words (Dental
Descriptors, Index to Dental Literature and/or Index Medicus) to
be used for indexing purposes.
Text : The body of the manuscript should contain an
Introduction, a detailed review of the Materials and Methods, a
description in logical sequence of Results, and a Discussion
section with Conclusions.
Acknowledgments and Conflict of Interest : Include
acknowledgement of those individuals who contributed to the
publication, source of financial support, and any financial
relationships of any of the authors which may pose a perceived
conflict of interest.
References : In the text the author's (authors') name(s)
and date of publication should be used as either: "in a similar
study (Anderson and Morgan, 1992)", or "Conversely, Blinkhorn
(1994) found that". If there are more than two authors, the
first author and year are cited in the text; for example,
"(Spencer et al., 1995)". Citation of authors of more than one
paper in a single year are shown as 1995a; 1995b; etc. Multiple
references in the text should appear in chronological order
separated by semicolons. Authors of unreferenced work should
appear in the text only.
