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

Südhof TC. Reproducibility: Experimental mismatch in neural circuits. Nature 2015;528(7582):338–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perutz MF., Windle AH. Cause of neural death in neurodegenerative diseases attributable to expansion of glutamine repeats. Nature 2001;412(6843):143–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mercader J., Panger M., Boesch C. Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest. Science 2002;296(5572):1452–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tang Q., Wang C., Wang D., Pawlowicz R. Seismic, satellite, and site observations of internal solitary waves in the NE South China Sea. Sci Rep 2014;4:5374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller RB., Hunter HJA., Mann MW. Clinical Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Petit M., Montaigne E., El Hadad-Gauthier F., García Álvarez-Coque JM., Mattas K., Mili S. Sustainable Agricultural Development: Challenges and Approaches in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Date Y. The Vagus Nerve and Ghrelin Function. In: Portelli J, and Smolders I, editors. Central Functions of the Ghrelin Receptor. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 53–61.

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

Taub B. Holy Hand Grenade Dating Back To The Crusades Discovered In Israel. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/holy-hand-grenade-dating-back-to-the-crusades-discovered-in-israel/. 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. Protest of Army Contract Award for Satellite Station. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dennard B. The Impact of Racial Centrality on Authenticity and the Race-Based Impression Management Strategies of Black Management Consultants. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2017.

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

Hartocollis A. Mental Issues Put 34,500 on New York No-Guns List. New York Times 2014: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	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