How to format your references using the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Habib S. Quantum physics. No mere anarchy. Science 2001;293:221–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brucker RM, Bordenstein SR. The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia. Science 2013;341:667–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Webster AJ, Payne RJH, Pagel M. Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science 2003;301:478.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li X, Kind R, Yuan X, Wölbern I, Hanka W. Rejuvenation of the lithosphere by the Hawaiian plume. Nature 2004;427:827–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Walker M. Happy-People-Pills For All. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Chorin AJ. Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science. vol. 58. 3rd ed. 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Christoph A. Media-Related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch. In: Liebenberg E, Collier P, Török ZG, editors. History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 57–69.

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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. One In Five Genetics Studies Contain Mistakes Due To Microsoft Excel. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-five-genetics-studies-contain-mistakes-microsoft-excel/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sumner I. Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana 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]

Hubbard B. An American in Syria, Offering a Window on Jihad. New York Times 2017:A7.

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	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases
ISSN (print)	2214-5419
Scope