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. Kasten FH. Early mouse models of human diseases. Science. 2000;289:56a.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Villier L, Korn D. Morphological disparity of ammonoids and the mark of Permian mass extinctions. Science. 2004;306:264–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yeung LY, Ash JL, Young ED. Isotope geochemistry. Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂. Science. 2015;348:431–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen J, Upadhyaya NM, Ortiz D, Sperschneider J, Li F, Bouton C, et al. Loss of AvrSr50 by somatic exchange in stem rust leads to virulence for Sr50 resistance in wheat. Science. 2017;358:1607–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Heiberger RM. Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Dilek Y, Furnes H, editors. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lattimer B, Campbell T. Fire Modelling of Composites. In: Gibson AG, editor. Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 103–32.

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. Carpineti A. A Planetary Collision May Have Brought Carbon To Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-planetary-collision-may-have-brought-carbon-to-earth/

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. Comments on “Airline Competition Enhancement Act of 1992.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: T-RCED-92-71.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McNamee L. Best Practices in Higher Education Faculty Motivation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Rosenberg E. Doctor Is Charged in Death After an Abortion. New York Times. 2016 Oct 12;A21.

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