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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 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

Coontz R (2012) Mysteries of astronomy. Science 336:1090

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Connor RM, Kenny PJ (2015) Neuroscience: Binge drinking and brain stress systems. Nature 520:168–169

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Sanderson W, Scherbov S (2008) The coming acceleration of global population ageing. Nature 451:716–719

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smith O, Clapham AJ, Rose P, et al (2014) Genomic methylation patterns in archaeological barley show de-methylation as a time-dependent diagenetic process. Sci Rep 4:5559

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro PF (2016) Plastics Product Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Okun O, Valentini G (2008) Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Giraud C (2012) Differential Fault Analysis of the Advanced Encryption Standard. In: Joye M, Tunstall M (eds) Fault Analysis in Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–72

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.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) 7 Myths About Psychedelic Drugs Like LSD That Are Doing More Harm Than Good. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7-myths-about-psychedelic-drugs-like-lsd-that-are-doing-more-harm-than-good/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2001) Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gordon RL (2010) Neural and behavioral correlates of song prosody. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Bray C (2016) London Bank’s U.S. Bargain Is Imperiled by New Claims. New York Times B3

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
Abbreviation	Oral Maxillofac. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1865-1550
ISSN (online)	1865-1569
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery