How to format your references using the BMC Oral Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Oral Health. 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

1. Tielens AGGM. Planetary science. Peering into stardust. Science. 2003;300:68–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shibasaki M, Masataka N. The color red distorts time perception for men, but not for women. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5899.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Paredez AR, Somerville CR, Ehrhardt DW. Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules. Science. 2006;312:1491–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yanik MF, Cinar H, Cinar HN, Chisholm AD, Jin Y, Ben-Yakar A. Neurosurgery: functional regeneration after laser axotomy. Nature. 2004;432:822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Coutts J. Loft Conversions. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Janowski T, Mohanty H, editors. Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 4th International Conference, ICDCIT 2007, Bangalore, India, December 17-20. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Neveu P, Domerg C, Fabre J, Négre V, Gennari E, Tireau A, et al. Using Ontologies of Software: Example of R Functions Management. In: Lacroix Z, Vidal ME, editors. Resource Discovery: Third International Workshop, RED 2010, Paris, France, November 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 43–56.

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 BMC Oral Health.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. World’s First Solar Cycle Path Is Performing Better Than Anticipated. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-first-solar-cycle-path-surprisingly-successful/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Space Station: Status of Russian Involvement and Cost Control Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mauger GS. Synoptic sensitivities of subtropical clouds: Separating aerosol effects from meteorology. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 2008.

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

1. Rosen J. Who Do They Think You Are? New York Times. 2012;:MM40.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	BMC Oral Health
Abbreviation	BMC Oral Health
ISSN (online)	1472-6831
Scope	General Dentistry