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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial 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	Download the output style file
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

Walmsley IA: Looking to the future of quantum optics. Science 319: 1211, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberman N, Trope Y: The psychology of transcending the here and now. Science 322: 1201, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eisenberger NI, Lieberman MD, Williams KD: Does rejection hurt? An FMRI study of social exclusion. Science 302: 290, 2003.

A journal article with 51 or more authors

Shen Y, Joachimiak A, Rosner MR, Tang W-J: Structures of human insulin-degrading enzyme reveal a new substrate recognition mechanism. Nature 443: 870, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson SK, Handelsman MM: Ethics for Psychotherapists and Counselors. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

An edited book

Kumar A, Meshram DS, Gowda K eds: Urban and Regional Planning Education: Learning for India. Singapore: Springer, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Zielke B, Straub J: Culture, Psychotherapy, and the Diasporic Self as Transitoric Identity: A Reply to Social Constructionist and Postmodern Concepts of Narrative Psychotherapy. In: Sugiman T, Gergen KJ, Wagner W, Yamada Y, eds. Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2008:49–72.

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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Blog post

Hamilton K: There Are Six Styles Of Love. Which One Best Describes You? IFLScience, 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/there-are-six-styles-of-love-which-one-best-describes-you/. 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: Compensatory Education: Aguilar v. Felton Decision’s Continuing Impact on Chapter 1 Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aquino-Centeno S: Contesting social memories and identities in the Zapotec Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico., 2009.

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

Kishkovsky S: Russian Cancels Pardon Request In Chechen Case. New York Times. September 22, 2004:A12.

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	Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0278-2391
ISSN (online)	1531-5053
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery