How to format your references using the Brazilian Oral Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Oral Research (BOR). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Sohn E. Screening: Diagnostic dilemma. Nature. 2015 Dec;528(7582):S120-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piskorowski R., Aldrich RW. Calcium activation of BK(Ca) potassium channels lacking the calcium bowl and RCK domains. Nature. 2002 Dec;420(6915):499–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tassin P., Koschny T., Soukoulis CM. Applied physics. Graphene for terahertz applications. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6146):620–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chaimanee Y., Suteethorn V., Jintasakul P., Vidthayanon C., Marandat B., Jaeger J-J. A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand. Nature. 2004 Jan;427(6973):439–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tung C-H., Sheng GTT., Lu C-Y. ULSI Semiconductor Technology Atlas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Chinesta F. Advances in Material Forming: Esaform 10 years on. Paris: Springer; 2007. VII, 236 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen D-G., Chen X., Lin F. Solving Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems with Moore–Penrose Generalized Inverse Matrix Method to Extract Longitudinal Characteristics from Cross-Sectional Survey Data. In: Chen D-G (din), Wilson J, editors. Innovative Statistical Methods for Public Health Data. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 81–94.

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 Brazilian Oral Research.

Blog post

Davis J. Snakes In Cuba Found To Coordinate Hanging From Cave Mouths To Group Hunt Bats. IFLScience. [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snakes-in-cuba-found-to-coordinate-hanging-from-cave-mouths-to-group-hunt-bats/.

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. Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Improving Project Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Demenkoff JH. Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2014.

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

Williams J. Who Says Religion and Science Don’t Mix? New York Times. 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Brazilian Oral Research
ISSN (print)	1806-8324
ISSN (online)	1807-3107
Scope