How to format your references using the Current Oral Health Reports citation style

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

1. Noller H. Carl Woese (1928-2012). Nature. 2013;493:610.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ghalambor CK, Martin TE. Fecundity-survival trade-offs and parental risk-taking in birds. Science. 2001;292:494–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Costello C, Gaines S, Gerber LR. Conservation science: A market approach to saving the whales. Nature. 2012;481:139–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rasmussen B, Bengtson S, Fletcher IR, McNaughton NJ. Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old. Science. 2002;296:1112–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mallios WS. Forecasting in Financial and Sports Gambling Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Hamington M, Sander-Staudt M, editors. Applying Care Ethics to Business. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jeon J, Kim D, Kim G. Network-Oriented Intelligent Agent Infrastructure for Internetworking with Guaranteed Quality of Service in High-Speed Network. In: Lee G, Howard D, Ślęzak D, editors. Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology: 5th International Conference, ICHIT 2011, Daejeon, Korea, September 22-24, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 23–30.

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 Current Oral Health Reports.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Earth’s Deepest Water May Be 1,000 Kilometers Below The Surface. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. High-Speed Ground Transport: Acquiring Rights-of-Way for Maglev Systems Requires a Flexible Approach. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Feb. Report No.: RCED-92-82.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schwartz DA. Safe Travels? An Examination of the Search and Rescue Policies and Capabilities in the Northwest Passage Region [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Wilson M. In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger. New York Times. 2017 Oct 10;A20.

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	Current Oral Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Oral Health Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-3002
Scope