How to format your references using the Journal of Oral Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oral Biosciences. 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]

Smaglik P. Norway: Turning oil into science. Nature 2002;417:4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Valiela I, Fox SE. Ecology. Managing coastal wetlands. Science 2008;319:290–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kiesecker JM, Blaustein AR, Belden LK. Complex causes of amphibian population declines. Nature 2001;410:681–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hayton TW, Boncella JM, Scott BL, Palmer PD, Batista ER, Hay PJ. Synthesis of imido analogs of the uranyl ion. Science 2005;310:1941–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ollivier J-P, Torrenti J-M, Carcassès M. Physical Properties of Concrete and Concrete Constituents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Donati-Martin C, Lejay A, Rouault A, editors. Séminaire de Probabilités XLIII. vol. 2006. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bochenkova AV, Andersen LH. Photo-initiated Dynamics and Spectroscopy of the Deprotonated Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore. In: Brøndsted Nielsen S, Wyer JA, editors. Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 67–103.

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 Oral Biosciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How Smartphone Use Is Changing The Way Thumbs and Brains Communicate. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-smartphone-use-changing-way-thumbs-and-brains-communicate/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Monitoring the Development of the Federal Power Commission’s Regulatory Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tucker CM. End-stage renal disease patients and dialysis: Can consistent transportation influence quality of life and treatment compliance? A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Williams J. Five Americans Listed for Man Booker Prize. New York Times 2016:C3.

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 Biosciences
Abbreviation	J. Oral Biosci.
ISSN (print)	1349-0079
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Medicine (miscellaneous) General Dentistry