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

Fisman R. Health care policy. Straining emergency rooms by expanding health insurance. Science. 2014 Jan 17;343(6168):252–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields RD, Stevens-Graham B. New insights into neuron-glia communication. Science. 2002 Oct 18;298(5593):556–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss LM, Dodelson S, Meyer S. Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science. 2010 May 21;328(5981):989–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Neff U, Burns SJ, Mangini A, Mudelsee M, Fleitmann D, Matter A. Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago. Nature. 2001 May 17;411(6835):290–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor R. Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Puzrin AM. Geomechanics of Failures. Alonso EE, Pinyol N, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. VIII, 245 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Itterheim S, Löw A. Your First Game. In: Löw A, editor. Learn cocos2D Game Development with iOS 5. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011. p. 81–113.

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. New Eye Drops Can Dissolve Cataracts With No Need For Surgery [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-step-closer-cataract-dissolving-eye-drops/

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. Department of Labor’s Past and Future Role in Offender Rehabilitation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Aug. Report No.: MWD-75-91.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dunbar S. Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Walsh MW. Hispanic Contingent in Congress Asks Treasury to Prevent ‘Catastrophe’ in Puerto Rico. New York Times. 2015 Sep 15;B3.

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