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

Schuster S. Translating science into business. Nature. 2007 Mar 29;446(7135):582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lo MT, Lee WC. Detecting a weak association by testing its multiple perturbations: a data mining approach. Sci Rep. 2014 May 28;4:5081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schroder K, Zhou R, Tschopp J. The NLRP3 inflammasome: a sensor for metabolic danger? Science. 2010 Jan 15;327(5963):296–300.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song J, Wu L, Chen Z, Kohanski RA, Pick L. Axons guided by insulin receptor in Drosophila visual system. Science. 2003 Apr 18;300(5618):502–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte S. Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Alpay D. Slice Hyperholomorphic Schur Analysis. Colombo F, Sabadini I, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XII, 362 p. (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications; vol. 256).

A chapter in an edited book

Xue M, Kalnis P, Pung HK. Location Diversity: Enhanced Privacy Protection in Location Based Services. In: Choudhury T, Quigley A, Strang T, Suginuma K, editors. Location and Context Awareness: 4th International Symposium, LoCA 2009 Tokyo, Japan, May 7-8, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 70–87. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Andrew E. Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Approach Closer Than The Moon This Weekend [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/asteroid-discovered-days-ago-will-approach-closer-moon-weekend/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Customs Is Effectively Managing Its Year 2000 Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-85.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Li L. Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Nossiter A. Rare Supreme Court Stay Halts a Texas Execution. New York Times. 2007 Sep 28;A18.

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

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