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

Denison R. Worlds of IIF. Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jamison DT, Sandbu ME. Global health. WHO ranking of health system performance. Science. 2001 Aug 31;293(5535):1595–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haince JF, Rouleau M, Poirier GG. Transcription. Gene expression needs a break to unwind before carrying on. Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1752–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wallraff A, Lukashenko A, Lisenfeld J, Kemp A, Fistul MV, Koval Y, et al. Quantum dynamics of a single vortex. Nature. 2003 Sep 11;425(6954):155–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ. The Basics of Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Fleer M, Ridgway A, editors. Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children: Transforming Visuality. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. VI, 238 p. 53 illus., 47 illus. in color. (International perspectives on early childhood education and development; vol. 10).

A chapter in an edited book

Del Rio A, Da Costa FB. Molecular Approaches to Explore Natural and Food-Compound Modulators in Cancer Epigenetics and Metabolism. In: Martinez-Mayorga K, Medina-Franco JL, editors. Foodinformatics: Applications of Chemical Information to Food Chemistry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 131–49.

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

Carpineti C. Watch This Mother Grey Whale Defend Her Calf From Attacking Orcas [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-this-mother-grey-whale-defend-her-calf-from-attacking-orcas/

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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Audit Confirms Reasonableness of Enrollment Count, but Report’s Presentation Is Unclear. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Mar. Report No.: HEHS-99-66R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rehan TY. Analysis of Life-Cycle Cost, Properties, and Field Performance of Parking Lot Pavements [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2016.

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

Greenhouse L. COURT TO WEIGH RACE AS A FACTOR IN SCHOOL ROLLS. New York Times. 2006 Jun 6;A1.

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

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