How to format your references using the Dentomaxillofacial Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. 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

Sylvestre D. Perspective: recognizing resistance. Nature. 2011 Jun 8;474(7350):S11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krauss LM, Chaboyer B. Age estimates of globular clusters in the Milky Way: constraints on cosmology. Science. 2003 Jan 3;299(5603):65–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blaha G, Stanley RE, Steitz TA. Formation of the first peptide bond: the structure of EF-P bound to the 70S ribosome. Science. 2009 Aug 21;325(5943):966–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang N, Tang ZK, Li GD, Chen JS. Single-walled 4 A carbon nanotube arrays. Nature. 2000 Nov 2;408(6808):50–1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Degner R, Leibl S. pH messen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Minai AA, Bar-Yam Y, editors. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XXIV, 390 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertino E, Martino LD, Paci F, Squicciarini AC. Standards for Web Services Security. In: Martino L, Paci F, Squicciarini A, editors. Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 45–77.

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 Dentomaxillofacial Radiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Deep Sleep-Promoting Brain Region Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/deep-sleep-promoting-brain-region-discovered/

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. Commercial Passenger Vehicles: Safety Inspection of Commercial Buses and Vans Entering the United States From Mexico. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Aug. Report No.: RCED-97-194.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brister MH. Attitudes of agriscience teachers, counselors, administrators, and students toward selected agriscience programs in Mississippi [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2008.

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

Kanter J. E.U. Moves to Set Up Military Training. New York Times. 2017 Mar 6;A6.

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	Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
Abbreviation	Dentomaxillofac. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	0250-832X
ISSN (online)	1476-542X
Scope	General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging General Dentistry