How to format your references using the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (IJOM). 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

Gershenfeld N. A quantum conversation. Science 2001;293(5537):2035–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pahnke K., Zahn R. Southern Hemisphere water mass conversion linked with North Atlantic climate variability. Science 2005;307(5716):1741–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo ZX., Crompton AW., Sun AL. A new mammaliaform from the early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics. Science 2001;292(5521):1535–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi WJ., Chung YJ., Kim YH., Han J., Lee Y-K., Kong K-J., et al. Drawing circuits with carbon nanotubes: scratch-induced graphoepitaxial growth of carbon nanotubes on amorphous silicon oxide substrates. Sci Rep 2014;4:5289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Aliev RA. Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Networks and Their Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Faheem M., Senellart P. Adaptive Web Crawling Through Structure-Based Link Classification. In: Allen RB, Hunter J, and Zeng ML, editors. Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information: 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015, Seoul, Korea, December 9-12, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 39–51.

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 International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-we-can-t-tickle-ourselves/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moon MM. The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017:MM20.

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	International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Abbreviation	Int. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0901-5027
ISSN (online)	1399-0020
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery