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. Clevers H. STEM CELLS. What is an adult stem cell? Science. 2015;350:1319–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brucker RM, Bordenstein SR. The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia. Science. 2013;341:667–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ito T, Woloszyn M, Mazloff M. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow. Nature. 2010;463:80–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kragl M, Knapp D, Nacu E, Khattak S, Maden M, Epperlein HH, et al. Cells keep a memory of their tissue origin during axolotl limb regeneration. Nature. 2009;460:60–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ergül Ö, Gürel L. The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kristbergsson K, Ötles S, editors. Functional Properties of Traditional Foods. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grinin L, Korotayev A. The Great Convergence and Globalization: How Former Colonies Became the World Economic Locomotives. In: Korotayev A, editor. Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 115–58.

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. Andrew E. Termite Mounds Can Prevent Spread Of Deserts In Vulnerable Ecosystems [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/termite-mounds-can-prevent-spread-deserts-vulnerable-ecosystems/

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. Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-96-102.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lima AA. Racial and cultural identity formation of low-income Brazilian youth of African descent through their experiences and perceptions in formal and informal schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Strauss B. N.C.A.A. Deal Pays Athletes Back for Hidden Costs of a Full Ride. New York Times. 2017 Feb 13;D2.

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

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