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

Reich, J. (2015). Education research. Rebooting MOOC research. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6217), 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, X., & Duncan, J. H. (2003). The effects of surfactants on spilling breaking waves. Nature, 421(6922), 520–523.

A journal article with 3 authors

McMahon, S. M., Miller, K. H., & Drake, J. (2001). Social science and ecology. Networking tips for social scientists and ecologists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1604–1605.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brummelkamp, T. R., Nijman, S. M. B., Dirac, A. M. G., & Bernards, R. (2003). Loss of the cylindromatosis tumour suppressor inhibits apoptosis by activating NF-kappaB. Nature, 424(6950), 797–801.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Powsner, R. A., Palmer, M. R., & Powsner, E. R. (2013). Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H. G., Serrano Oswald, S. E., & Bennett, J. (Eds.). (2016). Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific (Vol. 5). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Campioni, I., Notarangelo, G., Andreaus, U., Ventura, A., & Giacomozzi, C. (2013). Hip Prostheses Computational Modeling: FEM Simulations Integrated with Fatigue Mechanical Tests. In U. Andreaus & D. Iacoviello (Eds.), Biomedical Imaging and Computational Modeling in Biomechanics (pp. 81–108). Springer Netherlands.

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. (2015, June 18). Brain–Brain Interface Allows Humans To Control Cockroaches With Their Minds. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-brain-interface-allows-humans-control-cockroaches-their-minds/

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). Community Placement of the Mentally Disabled in Michigan] (092277). 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

Ahmadi, S. A. (2009). Synergistic interplay between math search and handwritten mathematical notation recognition [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Lyman, R. (2017, September 25). Polish President Offers Plan to End Court Crisis, but the Response Is Tepid. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reich, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Duncan, 2003; Reich, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Duncan, 2003)
Three authors: (McMahon et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Brummelkamp et al., 2003)

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