How to format your references using the Oral Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oral Diseases. 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	Download the output style file
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

Turner M (2015). Ecology: Mangrove maintenance. Nature 526: 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearse A-M, Swift K (2006). Allograft theory: transmission of devil facial-tumour disease. Nature 439: 549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kutnjak Z, Petzelt J, Blinc R (2006). The giant electromechanical response in ferroelectric relaxors as a critical phenomenon. Nature 441: 956–959.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Du Z, Munye MM, Tagalakis AD, Manunta MDI, Hart SL (2014). The role of the helper lipid on the DNA transfection efficiency of lipopolyplex formulations. Sci Rep 4: 7107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sullivan DM (2012). Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ambos-Spies K, Löwe B, Merkle W (Eds.) (2009). Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice: 5th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2009, Heidelberg, Germany, July 19-24, 2009. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Albritton KH, Eden T (2007). Access to Care Before and During Therapy. In: Bleyer WA, Barr RD, eds. Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–69.

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 Diseases.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016). Mars One Delays Manned Mission To The Red Planet Again, This Time By Five Years. IFLScience.

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 (1978). Crop Forecasting by Satellite: Progress and Problems. 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

Gomez VA (2017). La Lucha Sigue: Undocumented Students Challenging Anti-Immigrant Discourses. Doctoral dissertation California State University, Long Beach.

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

Marx L (2015). That Gravy Boat Has Sailed. New York Times: ST10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Turner, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pearse and Swift, 2006; Turner, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pearse and Swift, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Du et al, 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oral Diseases
Abbreviation	Oral Dis.
ISSN (print)	1354-523X
ISSN (online)	1601-0825
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology General Dentistry