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]

Arena BJ. Outside my comfort zone. Science 2014;345:842.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sandeep S, Ajayamohan RS. Origin of cold bias over the Arabian Sea in Climate Models. Sci Rep 2014;4:6403.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Freitag J, Ast J, Bölker M. Cryptic peroxisomal targeting via alternative splicing and stop codon read-through in fungi. Nature 2012;485:522–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pei ZM, Murata Y, Benning G, Thomine S, Klüsener B, Allen GJ, et al. Calcium channels activated by hydrogen peroxide mediate abscisic acid signalling in guard cells. Nature 2000;406:731–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sinclair E. Volatility Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Hanson G, Berliner L, editors. Metals in Biology: Applications of High-Resolution EPR to Metalloenzymes. vol. 29. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Takanashi K, Mizukami S. Spintronic Properties and Advanced Materials. In: Aoyagi Y, Kajikawa K, editors. Optical Properties of Advanced Materials, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 103–24.

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]

Davis J. Smartphone App Allows Tourists To Monitor Illegal Wildlife Crime. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/smartphone-app-allows-tourists-monitor-illegal-wildlife-crime/ (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. Coast Guard Postgraduate Education Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Flamenco E. A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Burghardt LF. Odes to Suburbia. New York Times 2006:14LI9.

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