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

Shi PY. Structural biology. Unraveling a flavivirus enigma. Science. 2014 Feb 21;343(6173):849–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Straus SE, Chesney MA. Science and government. Enhanced: in defense of NCCAM. Science. 2006 Jul 21;313(5785):303–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lintunen A, Hölttä T, Kulmala M. Anatomical regulation of ice nucleation and cavitation helps trees to survive freezing and drought stress. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2031.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chendrimada TP, Gregory RI, Kumaraswamy E, Norman J, Cooch N, Nishikura K, et al. TRBP recruits the Dicer complex to Ago2 for microRNA processing and gene silencing. Nature. 2005 Aug 4;436(7051):740–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Varrall G. Making Telecoms Work. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Kang L, Liu Y, Zeng S, editors. Advances in Computation and Intelligence: Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007 Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XVII, 666 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4683).

A chapter in an edited book

Solyanik G, Mizin VI, Pyaskovskaya O, Banakchevich N, Ogay YA. Correction of the Cancer Therapy-Induced Anemia by the Grape Polyphenol Concentrate Enoant. In: Pierce GN, Mizin VI, Omelchenko A, editors. Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 43–54. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology).

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

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. The Soldiers Who Died Of Homesickness. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-soldiers-who-died-of-homesickness/

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. Payment to Counties: More Clarity Could Help Ensure County Expenditures Are Consistent with Key Parts of the Secure Rural Schools Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jul. Report No.: GAO-12-775.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Escalante-Guerra M. Policy analysis proposal regarding the Adoptions and Safe Family Act of 1997 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Latimer M. Republicans Ignore a Poisoned City. New York Times. 2016 Jan 21;A27.

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