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]

Moseley SH. Astronomy. The other half of the universe? Science 2014;346:696–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Drake JM, Griffen BD. Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments. Nature 2010;467:456–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Selmecki A, Forche A, Berman J. Aneuploidy and isochromosome formation in drug-resistant Candida albicans. Science 2006;313:367–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang X, Beaulieu J-M, Sotnikova TD, Gainetdinov RR, Caron MG. Tryptophan hydroxylase-2 controls brain serotonin synthesis. Science 2004;305:217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ghaye T. Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Nguyen L, Hippenmeyer S, editors. Cellular and Molecular Control of Neuronal Migration. vol. 800. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

King GM, Churnside AB, Perkins TT. A Precision Force Microscope for Biophysics. In: Shaw GA, Prorok BC, Starman LA, editors. MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 31–6.

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]

Taub B. Acupuncture Reduces Hypertension By Stimulating The Release Of Natural Opioids. IFLScience 2016.

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. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Watson AM. A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

Stellin S. The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches. New York Times 2013:B1.

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

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