How to format your references using the Current Otorhinolaryngology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Otorhinolaryngology 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. Giles J. UK universities face star treatment in funding revamp. Nature. 2003;423:574.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schwab ME, Buchli AD. Drug research: plug the real brain drain. Nature. 2012;483:267–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bichot NP, Rossi AF, Desimone R. Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science. 2005;308:529–34.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xue W-Q, He Y-Q, Zhu J-H, Ma J-Q, He J, Jia W-H. Association of BRCA2 N372H polymorphism with cancer susceptibility: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vaseghi SV. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

1. Bestak R, Simak B, Kozlowska E, editors. Personal Wireless Communications: The 12th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2007. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Veiga LG, Kurian M. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Questions of Accountability and Autonomy. In: Kurian M, Ardakanian R, editors. Governing the Nexus: Water, Soil and Waste Resources Considering Global Change. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 63–81.

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 Otorhinolaryngology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Coldest Place In The Universe Looks Like A Ghost [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/young-planetary-nebula-looks-ghost/

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. Methodology Used in Lease-Versus-Purchase Decision for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jul. Report No.: LCD-76-127.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Corral E. Latino undocumented students in Los Angeles: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Gorman J. In Defense of the Donkey. New York Times. 2016 Oct 31;D1.

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 Otorhinolaryngology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Otorhinolaryngol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-583X
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