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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Bohannon, J. The Science Hall of Fame. Science 2011, 331, 143.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Chirik, P.J.; Wieghardt, K. Chemistry. Radical Ligands Confer Nobility on Base-Metal Catalysts. Science 2010, 327, 794–795.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Durack, P.J.; Wijffels, S.E.; Matear, R.J. Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification during 1950 to 2000. Science 2012, 336, 455–458.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Tournaire-Roux, C.; Sutka, M.; Javot, H.; Gout, E.; Gerbeau, P.; Luu, D.-T.; Bligny, R.; Maurel, C. Cytosolic PH Regulates Root Water Transport during Anoxic Stress through Gating of Aquaporins. Nature 2003, 425, 393–397.

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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Ahmad, A. Wireless and Mobile Data Networks; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471729228.
An edited book
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Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, Held as Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers; Miksch, S., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 8903; ISBN 9783319132808.
A chapter in an edited book
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Kumano, H.; Suemune, I.; Kishino, K.; Fujita, S.; Sandhu, A.; Suzuki, N.; Ohkawa, K. Novel Nano-Heterostructure Materials and Related Devices. In Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Fundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic Devices; Takahashi, K., Yoshikawa, A., Sandhu, A., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp. 281–327 ISBN 9783540472346.

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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Luntz, S. Re-Examination Of Old Notebooks Reveals Powerful Mathematics Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/taxi-cab-reveals-powerful-mathematics/ (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 Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

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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Nespoli, G. Impact of Supervisor Support on Employee Job Satisfaction Among Fundraising Staff Within Higher Education. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2017.

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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Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES New York City’s Sconces. New York Times 2016, RE10.

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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