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. Urban KW. Studying atomic structures by aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. Science. 2008;321:506–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Baldauf D, Desimone R. Neural mechanisms of object-based attention. Science. 2014;344:424–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fromm M, Nedoluha G, Charvát Z. Comment on “Large volcanic aerosol load in the stratosphere linked to Asian monsoon transport.” Science. 2013;339:647.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pan X, Wang G, Lay CL, Tan BH, He C, Liu Y. Photoluminescence from amino-containing polymer in the presence of CO2: carbamato anion formed as a fluorophore. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2763.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Relethford JH. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Freed KF, editor. Phase Behaviour of Polymer Blends. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bertino E, Martino LD, Paci F, Squicciarini AC. Standards for Web Services Security. In: Martino L, Paci F, Squicciarini A, editors. Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 45–77.

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. Andrew E. Corporate Climate Scientists: Advocates For Science Or Protectors Of Status Quo? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/corporate-climate-scientists-advocates-science-or-protectors-status-quo/

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. Building Partner Capacity: Actions Needed to Strengthen DOD Efforts to Assess the Performance of the Regional Centers for Security Studies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Jun. Report No.: GAO-13-606.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Watson WA. Middle school students’ experiences on a science museum field trip as Preparation for Future Learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Billard M. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2010 Aug 12;E5.

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