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

Service RF (2000) CHEMICAL PHYSICS: Magnetic Wires Promise Giant Step for Memory. Science 290:2047a–8a

A journal article with 2 authors

Walker CL, Stewart EA (2005) Uterine fibroids: the elephant in the room. Science 308:1589–1592

A journal article with 3 authors

Hays GC, Houghton JDR, Myers AE (2004) Endangered species: Pan-Atlantic leatherback turtle movements. Nature 429:522

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Byrne JA, Pedersen DA, Clepper LL, et al (2007) Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature 450:497–502

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kudnig ST, Séguin B (2012) Veterinary Surgical Oncology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Liu S, Forrest JY-L (2010) Advances in Grey Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Satchell SE, Hwang S (2016) Tracking Error: Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Measures. In: Satchell S (ed) Asset Management: Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 54–62

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 E (2015) Monoclonal Antibodies: The Invisible Allies That Changed The Face Of Medicine. In: IFLScience. 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 (2008) Safe Routes to School: Progress in Implementing the Program, but a Comprehensive Plan to Evaluate Program Outcomes Is Needed. 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

Narita D (2008) Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Lee L (2014) Greasing a Squeaky Wheel. New York Times D3

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