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

Check E (2007) Stem cells: the hard copy. Nature 446:485–486

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen K, Murray F (2005) Intellectual property. Enhanced: intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science 310:239–240

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Benlekbir S, Rubinstein JL (2015) Electron cryomicroscopy observation of rotational states in a eukaryotic V-ATPase. Nature 521:241–245

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Odkhuu D, Shin D, Ruoff RS, Park N (2013) Conversion of multilayer graphene into continuous ultrathin sp³-bonded carbon films on metal surfaces. Sci Rep 3:3276

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews C (1998) A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Benth FE (2013) Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2013: Editors: Vicky Henderson, Ronnie Sircar. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lyons DE (2009) The Rational Continuum of Human Imitation. In: Pineda JA (ed) Mirror Neuron Systems: The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 77–103

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 D (2016) Scientists Asked 5,500 Americans To Reveal Their “Relationship Deal Breakers” — Here’s What They Learned. In: IFLScience. 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 (1995) SSI Disability Issues. 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

Zhao L (2017) Modeling, Estimation and Approximation in Structured Models. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Koblin J (2016) Cable News Networks Report a Banner Year in 2016. New York Times B2

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