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

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

[1]

Monack DM. Immunology: recognition of a unique partner. Nature 2011;477:543–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Martin KC, Schuman EM. NEUROSCIENCE. Opting in or out of the network. Science 2015;350:1477–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ahn CH, Rabe KM, Triscone J-M. Ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: local polarization in oxide thin films and heterostructures. Science 2004;303:488–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Molina-Heredia FP, Wastl J, Navarro JA, Bendall DS, Hervás M, Howe CJ, et al. Photosynthesis: a new function for an old cytochrome? Nature 2003;424:33–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Devolder P, Janssen J, Manca R. Stochastic Methods for Pension Funds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Hefley WE, Wang Y, editors. Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Case Studies and Impacts. vol. 45. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Perez-Felkner L. Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence. In: DeLamater J, Ward A, editors. Handbook of Social Psychology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 119–49.

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, Medicine, and Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Is The Universe A Hologram? IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit Grants: Improved Management Could Reduce Misuse of Funds in UMTA’s Region IX. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sammons JL. Perceived benefits of and barriers to physical exercise in people with severe mental illness. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

[1]

Gorman J. Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen. New York Times 2017:D3.

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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. Med. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	2212-5558
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