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

Triendl R (2002) Back to basics. Nature 420:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher SJ, Giudice LC (2013) Retrospective. Robert G. Edwards (1925-2013). Science 340:825

A journal article with 3 authors

Fialkov A, Barkana R, Visbal E (2014) The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization. Nature 506:197–199

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim HS, Tan Y, Ma W, et al (2018) Pluripotency factors functionally premark cell-type-restricted enhancers in ES cells. Nature 556:510–514

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minelli M, Chambers M, Dhiraj A (2013) Big Data, Big Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ware GW, Nigg HN, Doerge DR (2006) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Mark D, Topley K, Nutting J, et al (2015) More User Interface Fun. In: Topley K, Nutting J, Olsson F, LaMarche J (eds) Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 2: Exploring the iOS SDK. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 91–140

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 (2016) Why Do We Get Dizzy? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-get-dizzy/. 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) Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns. 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

Hendricks ED (2010) Teaching teachers: A study of teacher educators’ perceptions of the effect of meeting mandated NCATE standards. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Woolfe Z (2013) The Newest Russia House. New York Times C1

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

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