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How to format your references using the Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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deMenocal, P.B. Anthropology. Climate and Human Evolution. Science 2011, 331, 540–542.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Gómez, P.; Buckling, A. Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Soil. Science 2011, 332, 106–109.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Tyler, R.H.; Maus, S.; Lühr, H. Satellite Observations of Magnetic Fields Due to Ocean Tidal Flow. Science 2003, 299, 239–241.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Ito, J.; Ghosh, A.; Moreira, L.A.; Wimmer, E.A.; Jacobs-Lorena, M. Transgenic Anopheline Mosquitoes Impaired in Transmission of a Malaria Parasite. Nature 2002, 417, 452–455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Baldi, P.; Frasconi, P.; Smyth, P. Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2002; ISBN 9780470867990.
An edited book
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Automata, Languages, and Programming: 39th International Colloquium, ICALP 2012, Warwick, UK, July 9-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II; Czumaj, A., Mehlhorn, K., Pitts, A., Wattenhofer, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7392; ISBN 9783642315848.
A chapter in an edited book
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Pfaff, C.C.; Hasan, H. Can Knowledge Management Be Open Source? In Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11–14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland; Feller, J., Fitzgerald, B., Scacchi, W., Sillitti, A., Eds.; IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2007; pp. 59–70 ISBN 9780387724850.

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 Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine.

Blog post
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Andrew, E. Andrei Linde Receives News About Gravitational Wave Breakthrough Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/andrei-linde-receives-news-about-gravitational-wave-breakthrough/ (accessed on 30 October 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
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Government Accountability Office Air Force F-22 Embedded Computers; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Randall, M.H. Information Technology Certification Programs and Perceptions of Attitude and Need by High School Principals, Information Technology Teachers, and Information Technology Professionals in Ohio. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2006.

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
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Kanter, J. As Hopes for European Unity Dim, New E.U. Headquarters Are Glowing. New York Times 2016, A6.

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 titleJournal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine
ISSN (online)2504-463X
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