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. Wilczek F. Particle physics: A weighty mass difference. Nature. 2015;520:303–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tuthill PG, Lloyd JP. A symmetric bipolar nebula around MWC 922. Science. 2007;316:247.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stern P, Hines PJ, Travis J. The aging brain. Introduction. Science. 2014;346:566–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yang Q, Graham TE, Mody N, Preitner F, Peroni OD, Zabolotny JM, et al. Serum retinol binding protein 4 contributes to insulin resistance in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Nature. 2005;436:356–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lieberman JA, Tasman A. Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Juang J, Chen C-Y, Yang C-F, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Novikova E, Kotenko I. Visual Analytics for Detecting Anomalous Activity in Mobile Money Transfer Services. In: Teufel S, Min TA, You I, Weippl E, editors. Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems: IFIP WG 84, 89, TC 5 International Cross-Domain Conference, CD-ARES 2014 and 4th International Workshop on Security and Cognitive Informatics for Homeland Defense, SeCIHD 2014, Fribourg, Switzerland, September 8-12, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 63–78.

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. Desert Rain Frog: Dangerous Beast or Adorable Squeaky Toy? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Online Access to Legislative Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Mar. Report No.: 115068.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Collins JW. An Examination of Chronic Absenteeism as Related to Performance on End-of-Year Missouri State Assessments [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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. Cooper M. National Opera Names General Director. New York Times. 2017 Sep 22;C3.

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

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