How to format your references using the Journal of Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 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

[1]

Grebe M. Plant biology. Enhanced: growth by auxin: when a weed needs acid. Science 2005;310:60–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Diaz RJ, Rosenberg R. Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science 2008;321:926–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cubrović M, Zaanen J, Schalm K. String theory, quantum phase transitions, and the emergent Fermi liquid. Science 2009;325:439–44.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Krimigis SM, Mitchell DG, Roelof EC, Hsieh KC, McComas DJ. Imaging the interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium from Saturn with Cassini. Science 2009;326:971–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Münch V. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Randelli P, Dejour D, van Dijk CN, Denti M, Seil R, editors. Arthroscopy: Basic to Advanced. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lidskog R, Sundqvist G. Sociology of Risk. In: Roeser S, Hillerbrand R, Sandin P, Peterson M, editors. Essentials of Risk Theory, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 75–105.

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 Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Dinosaurs May Have Been Cooing To Each Other. IFLScience 2016.

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. Consolidated Student Loans: Borrowers Benefit but Costs to Them and the Government Grow. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Goldberg AL. The Seriously Ill Patient’s Broken Care Continuum: One Community’s Action Response. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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

[1]

Koblin J. Hitting Delay When News Cuts Too Close. New York Times 2016:AR19.

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 Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
ISSN (print)	2468-7855
Scope