How to format your references using the International Journal of Oral Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Oral Science. 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

Meier RP. Diminishing diversity of signed languages. Science. 2000;288(5473):1965b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant PR, Grant BR. Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin’s finches. Science. 2002;296(5568):707-711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt N, McGrath D, Stergiou N. The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5879.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Richter A, Burrows JP, Nüss H, Granier C, Niemeier U. Increase in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China observed from space. Nature. 2005;437(7055):129-132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

You H, Jianjuan X, Xin G. Radar Data Processing with Applications. John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Schousboe I, Winther-Lindqvist D, eds. Children’s Play and Development: Cultural-Historical Perspectives. Vol 8. Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahn KY, Sheard T, Fiore M, Pitts AM. System F i. In: Hasegawa M, ed. Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 11th International Conference, TLCA 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2013:15-30.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. Mouse vs. Scorpion- Who Do You Think Wins? IFLScience.

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. Telecommunications: Full Adoption of Sound Transition Planning Practices by GSA and Selected Agencies Could Improve Planning Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hammarsten C. Decorated Heegaard Diagrams and Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2015.

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. Obliviously, Wentz Fuels The Eagles’ Giddy Rise. New York Times. October 30, 2017:B7.

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 Science
Abbreviation	Int. J. Oral Sci.
ISSN (print)	1674-2818
ISSN (online)	2049-3169
Scope	General Dentistry