How to format your references using the Archives of Oral Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Oral Biology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Abbott, A. (2003). Chicken flu races through Dutch poultry farms. Nature, 422(6929), 247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allcott, H., & Mullainathan, S. (2010). Energy. Behavior and energy policy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5970), 1204–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bandyopadhyay, P. R., Leinhos, H. A., & Hellum, A. M. (2013). Handedness helps homing in swimming and flying animals. Scientific Reports, 3, 1128.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bodin, K., Ellmerich, S., Kahan, M. C., Tennent, G. A., Loesch, A., Gilbertson, J. A., Hutchinson, W. L., Mangione, P. P., Gallimore, J. R., Millar, D. J., Minogue, S., Dhillon, A. P., Taylor, G. W., Bradwell, A. R., Petrie, A., Gillmore, J. D., Bellotti, V., Botto, M., Hawkins, P. N., & Pepys, M. B. (2010). Antibodies to human serum amyloid P component eliminate visceral amyloid deposits. Nature, 468(7320), 93–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, G. W. (2003). Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carlier, M.-F. (Ed.). (2010). Actin-based Motility: Cellular, Molecular and Physical Aspects. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ascher, W., & Mirovitskaya, N. (2016). Pitfalls of Macroeconomic Decisions. In N. Mirovitskaya (Ed.), Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development (pp. 69–79). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Archives of Oral Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 8). WHO Declares Ebola A Public Health Emergency. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-declares-ebola-public-health-emergency/

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. (1976). National Assessment of Educational Progress: Its Results Need To Be Made More Useful (HRD-76-113). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rahmani, M. (2017). On the calculation of time-domain impulse-response of systems from band-limited scattering-parameters using wavelet transform [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Latimer, M. (2016, August 8). How to Get Trump to Withdraw. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Allcott & Mullainathan, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Allcott & Mullainathan, 2010)
Three authors: (Bandyopadhyay et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Bodin et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Oral Biology
Abbreviation	Arch. Oral Biol.
ISSN (print)	0003-9969
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology General Dentistry