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

Lichten, M. (2015). Molecular biology. Putting the breaks on meiosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6263), 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loring, J. F., & Campbell, C. (2006). Science and law. Intellectual property and human embryonic stem cell research. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1716–1717.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann, D., Hufnagel, L., & Geisel, T. (2006). The scaling laws of human travel. Nature, 439(7075), 462–465.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kyutoku, M., Nakagami, H., Koriyama, H., Nakagami, F., Shimamura, M., Kurinami, H., Tomioka, H., Miyake, T., Katsuya, T., & Morishita, R. (2013). Inhibition of neointima formation through DNA vaccination for apolipoprotein(a): a new therapeutic strategy for lipoprotein(a). Scientific Reports, 3, 1600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Askoolum, A. (2007). System Building with APL + Win. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Krieglstein, G. K., Weinreb, R. N., Pleyer, U., & Mondino, B. (Eds.). (2005). Uveitis and Immunological Disorders. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gavalec, M., Ramík, J., & Zimmermann, K. (2015). Optimization Problems Under Max-Min Separable Equation and Inequality Constraints. In J. Ramík & K. Zimmermann (Eds.), Decision Making and Optimization: Special Matrices and Their Applications in Economics and Management (pp. 119–161). Springer International Publishing.

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, July 2). New Models Suggest Universe Will Eventually Rip Itself Apart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/will-universe-rip-itself-apart/

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. (1997). Customs Service Modernization: ACE Poses Risks and Challenges (T-AIMD-97-96). 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

Pena, A. M. (2012). Perceptions of Spanish/English bilingual school psychologists regarding competency in assessment and future training needs [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Belson, K. (2012, August 1). Olympic Ideal Takes Beating In Badminton. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lichten, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lichten, 2015; Loring & Campbell, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Loring & Campbell, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kyutoku et al., 2013)

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