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:

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

Fujishima, A. Comment on “Efficient Photochemical Water Splitting by a Chemically Modified n-TiO2” (I). Science 2003, 301, 1673; discussion 1673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinson, C.M.; Pfeiffer, J.K. Virology. Leaping the Norovirus Hurdle. Science 2014, 346, 700–701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Selmecki, A.; Forche, A.; Berman, J. Aneuploidy and Isochromosome Formation in Drug-Resistant Candida Albicans. Science 2006, 313, 367–370.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Crampton, J.S.; Beu, A.G.; Cooper, R.A.; Jones, C.M.; Marshall, B.; Maxwell, P.A. Estimating the Rock Volume Bias in Paleobiodiversity Studies. Science 2003, 301, 358–360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paolella, M.S. Fundamental Probability; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006; ISBN 9780470035351.

An edited book

Multiple Shooting and Time Domain Decomposition Methods: MuS-TDD, Heidelberg, May 6-8, 2013; Carraro, T., Geiger, M., Körkel, S., Rannacher, R., Eds.; Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 9; ISBN 9783319233208.

A chapter in an edited book

Devonshire-Ellis, C.; Scott, A.; Woollard, S. Acquisition. In Mergers & Acquisitions in China; Devonshire-Ellis, C., Scott, A., Woollard, S., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 33–36 ISBN 9783642149184.

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

O`Callaghan, J. Saturn’s Rings May Have 1 Billion Years Left To Live Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturns-rings-may-have-1-billion-years-left-to-live/ (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

Government Accountability Office Status of Trident and SSN-688 Submarine Construction; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sikorsky, A.A. Concentration Enhancement and Device Fabrication for the Improved Performance of Gradient Elution Moving Boundary Electrophoresis. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2014.

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

Hollander, S. Golden Arms Tourney Continues a Quest. New York Times 2002, 86.

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

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