How to format your references using the Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research. 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

Smaglik P. Big or small neuroscience? Nature. 2001;414(6860):3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allan RP, Soden BJ. Atmospheric warming and the amplification of precipitation extremes. Science. 2008;321(5895):1481-1484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy HJ, Crawford AC, Fettiplace R. Force generation by mammalian hair bundles supports a role in cochlear amplification. Nature. 2005;433(7028):880-883.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nardi F, Spinsanti G, Boore JL, Carapelli A, Dallai R, Frati F. Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic? Science. 2003;299(5614):1887-1889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schaik CPV. The Primate Origins of Human Nature. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Saha PK, Maulik U, Basu S, eds. Advanced Computational Approaches to Biomedical Engineering. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Babé A, Labbé D, Monot F, Greer CW, Fayolle-Guichard F. Biodegradability of Oxygenates by Microflora from MTBE-Contaminated Sites: New Molecular Tools. In: Barceló D, ed. Fuel Oxygenates. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer; 2007:75-98.

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 Biology and Craniofacial Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Unusual Organic Molecule Discovered At The Heart Of The Milky Way. IFLScience. Published September 26, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/unusual-organic-molecule-discovered-heart-milky-way/

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. Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Highway Administration Could Further Mitigate Locally Administered Project Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Virchez Azuara A. A Human Resource Perspective on the Development of Workforce Agility. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2015.

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

Farrell JA. Tricky Dick’s Vietnam Treachery. New York Times. December 31, 2016:SR9.

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 Biology and Craniofacial Research
Abbreviation	J. Oral Biol. Craniofac. Res.
ISSN (print)	2212-4268
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology General Dentistry