How to format your references using the Odontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Odontology. 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. Jayaraman KS. Funding crisis for Indian biotech centre. Nature. 2000;403:694.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Holland G, Ballentine CJ. Seawater subduction controls the heavy noble gas composition of the mantle. Nature. 2006;441:186–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mastrobuono-Battisti A, Perets HB, Raymond SN. A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon. Nature. 2015;520:212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Meyzen CM, Blichert-Toft J, Ludden JN, Humler E, Mével C, Albarède F. Isotopic portrayal of the Earth’s upper mantle flow field. Nature. 2007;447:1069–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hahn A, Behle B, Lischewski D, Rein W. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

1. Fragiskos FD, editor. Oral Surgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Levin BW, Nosov MA. Role of the Compressibility of Water and of Nonlinear Effects in the Formation of Tsunami Waves. In: Nosov M, editor. Physics of Tsunamis. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 181–262.

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 Odontology.

Blog post

1. Davis J. FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-1049.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Friedman DE. Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Kalogerakis G. More Change At Charlotte And Wilbur’s. New York Times. 2017 Sep 7;C13.

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	Odontology
Abbreviation	Odontology
ISSN (print)	1618-1247
ISSN (online)	1618-1255
Scope	General Dentistry