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

Toggweiler JR. Climate change. Shifting westerlies. Science. 2009 Mar;323(5920):1434–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamamis P., Floudas CA. Elucidating a key anti-HIV-1 and cancer-associated axis: the structure of CCL5 (Rantes) in complex with CCR5. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun;4:5447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wynn TA., Chawla A., Pollard JW. Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease. Nature. 2013 Apr;496(7446):445–55.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Spoor F., Leakey MG., Gathogo PN., Brown FH., Antón SC., McDougall I., et al. Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature. 2007 Aug;448(7154):688–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitam S., Mellouk A. Bio-Inspired Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Eden AH., Moor JH., Søraker JH., Steinhart E. Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. IX, 441 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Argenyi Z., Jokinen CH. Malignant Cutaneous Neoplasms with Peripheral Nerve Differentiation. In: Jokinen CH, editor. Cutaneous Neural Neoplasms: A Practical Guide. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 83–91.

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

Luntz S. Arctic Forests Remember The Ice Age. IFLScience. [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-forests-remember-the-ice-age/.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Today Needed To Prevent Future Disruption of Government Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farrell BM. Body composition changes and work-efficiency effects from diet modification and incorporation of an at-home exercise regimen. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.

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

Rueck K. “ LITTLE TIME FOR EXTRAS”; What’s a Stewardess. New York Times. 1972:travel and resorts-summer vacations-part 1XX4.

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

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