How to format your references using the European Journal of Oral Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Oral Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

Williams R. Slowing the decline. Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):S13-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barkai N, Leibler S. Circadian clocks limited by noise. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):267–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ito T, Woloszyn M, Mazloff M. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow. Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):80–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lierz M, Reinschmidt M, Müller H, Wink M, Neumann D. A novel method for semen collection and artificial insemination in large parrots (Psittaciformes). Sci Rep. 2013;3:2066.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak H, Hoch HU, Füg D. Stahltragwerke im Industriebau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Godara B, Nikita KS, editors. Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: Third International Conference, MobiHealth 2012, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XIV, 457 p. 190 illus. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 61).

A chapter in an edited book

Fleisch AF, Wright RO, Baccarelli AA. Is Environmental Epigenetics Relevant to Endocrine Disease? In: Su LJ, Chiang TC, editors. Environmental Epigenetics. London: Springer; 2015. p. 55–74. (Molecular and Integrative Toxicology).

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 European Journal of Oral Sciences.

Blog post

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. A Single Gene Can Cause Autism, Study Finds. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/single-gene-cause-autism/

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. Technology Transfer: Improving Incentives For Technology Transfer at Federal Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Oct. Report No.: T-RCED-94-42.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Leary JJ. Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

Hodara S. Two Exhibitions, From Cover to Cover. New York Times. 2014 Mar 16;CT10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	European Journal of Oral Sciences
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Oral Sci.
ISSN (print)	0909-8836
ISSN (online)	1600-0722
Scope	General Dentistry