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]

Shaw R. Journal club. A cancer researcher ponders a fundamental connection between nutrients and gene expression. Nature 2009;462:829.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Starr MB, Wang X. Fundamental analysis of piezocatalysis process on the surfaces of strained piezoelectric materials. Sci Rep 2013;3:2160.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu XC, Zhang HW, Lu K. Strain-induced ultrahard and ultrastable nanolaminated structure in nickel. Science 2013;342:337–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Koglin A, Mofid MR, Löhr F, Schäfer B, Rogov VV, Blum M-M, et al. Conformational switches modulate protein interactions in peptide antibiotic synthetases. Science 2006;312:273–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Safari M, Ariff M, Mohamad S. Sukuk Securities. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Allison ST, Kocher CT, Goethals GR, editors. Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership: Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ambainis A, Prūsis K. A Tight Lower Bound on Certificate Complexity in Terms of Block Sensitivity and Sensitivity. In: Csuhaj-Varjú E, Dietzfelbinger M, Ésik Z, editors. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2014: 39th International Symposium, MFCS 2014, Budapest, Hungary, August 25-29, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 33–44.

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]

Carpineti A. This Water-Powered CubeSat Might Be Sent To The Moon. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-waterpowered-cubesat-might-be-sent-to-the-moon/ (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. Federal Agencies’ Contracting for Research and Development in the Private, Profitmaking Sector. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jackson ME. Where are the parents: The parent’s perspective of parental involvement in education. Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Feeney K. Coming for ‘Cake Boss’ And Finding More. New York Times 2012:NJ9.

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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