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

Gardner JA. Ars longa, vita brevis. Nature 2000;408(6809):143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley JJL., Alford RA. Hot bodies protect amphibians against chytrid infection in nature. Sci Rep 2013;3:1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Messer H., Zinevich A., Alpert P. Environmental monitoring by wireless communication networks. Science 2006;312(5774):713.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okutsu T., Shikina S., Kanno M., Takeuchi Y., Yoshizaki G. Production of trout offspring from triploid salmon parents. Science 2007;317(5844):1517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zaragoza Dörwald F. Side Reactions in Organic Synthesis. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Alpas H., Smith M., Kulmyrzaev A. Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Akbar Z., Ivanova VN., Berthold MR. Parallel Data Mining Revisited. Better, Not Faster. In: Hollmén J, Klawonn F, and Tucker A, editors. Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XI: 11th International Symposium, IDA 2012, Helsinki, Finland, October 25-27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 23–34.

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

Carpineti A. The Best Close-Up Picture Of Pluto From New Horizons Yet. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-close-pictures-pluto-new-horizons/. 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. SEOG Funds: Information on the Distribution of SEOG Funds to Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez HM. DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Shpigel B. Raiders Manage to Play Without Leader, Barely. New York Times 2017:D1.

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

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