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

Bowles S (2006) Group competition, reproductive leveling, and the evolution of human altruism. Science 314:1569–1572

A journal article with 2 authors

Mulch A, Chamberlain CP (2006) Earth science: the rise and growth of Tibet. Nature 439:670–671

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhlen M, Madau P, Silk J (2009) Exploring dark matter with Milky Way substructure. Science 325:970–973

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tang G, Minemoto Y, Dibling B, et al (2001) Inhibition of JNK activation through NF-kappaB target genes. Nature 414:313–317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sobel A (2009) All for One. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Golinska P, Hajdul M (2012) Sustainable Transport: New Trends and Business Practices. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharjee P, Das K, De M, De D (2015) SPICE Modeling and Analysis for Metal Island Ternary QCA Logic Device. In: Mandal JK, Satapathy SC, Kumar Sanyal M, et al (eds) Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 1. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 33–41

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Could Wormholes Give Us The Long-Sought Theory Of Quantum Gravity? 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 (2014) Oil and Gas Transportation: Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipeline Safety. 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

McKinney RW (2017) The Optimal Balance of Liberal Education and Career Readiness in the Context of the American Promise: A Critical Analysis of the American Association of Colleges and Universities Liberal Education and America’s Promise Challenge. 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

Sokolove M (2017) Following the Money. New York Times AR22

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