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

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

Knight J (2003) Turning technology into gold. Nature 426:708

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla DS, Shah J (2001) Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors. Nature 411:549–557

A journal article with 3 authors

Pellizzoni L, Yong J, Dreyfuss G (2002) Essential role for the SMN complex in the specificity of snRNP assembly. Science 298:1775–1779

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhuang J, Yeoh WK, Cui X, et al (2014) Unabridged phase diagram for single-phased FeSe(x)Te(1-x) thin films. Sci Rep 4:7273

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schiesser WE (2017) Spline Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hartimo M (2010) Phenomenology and Mathematics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Nesteruk I (2012) Drag Effectiveness of Supercavitating Underwater Hulls. In: Nesteruk I (ed) Supercavitation: Advances and Perspectives A collection dedicated to the 70th jubilee of Yu.N. Savchenko. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–106

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 Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Stunning New Photograph Of Medusa Nebula. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/gaze-upon-medusa-without-turning-stone/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2015) Space Launch System: Management Tools Should Better Track to Cost and Schedule Commitments to Adequately Monitor Increasing Risk. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hitchins MG (2017) Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Chira S (2016) The Myth of Female Solidarity. New York Times SR7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Maxillofac. Oral Surg.
ISSN (print)	0972-8279
ISSN (online)	0974-942X
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery