How to format your references using the Oral Oncology citation style

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

[1]

Bender E. Developing world: Global warning. Nature 2014;509:S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Liotta LA, Kohn EC. The microenvironment of the tumour-host interface. Nature 2001;411:375–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O’Rahilly S, Barroso I, Wareham NJ. Genetic factors in type 2 diabetes: the end of the beginning? Science 2005;307:370–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chan CKF, Chen C-C, Luppen CA, Kim J-B, DeBoer AT, Wei K, et al. Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation. Nature 2009;457:490–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Blundell A, Harrison R, Turney B. The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Kakaç S, Pramuanjaroenkij A, Vasiliev L, editors. Mini-Micro Fuel Cells: Fundamentals and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cheng J, Lu H. Local Structure Preserving Based Subspace Analysis Methods and Applications. In: Chen Y-W, C. Jain L, editors. Subspace Methods for Pattern Recognition in Intelligent Environment, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 105–21.

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 Oncology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Anti-Prion Compound Provides New Hope For Treating Brain-Wasting Disease. IFLScience 2015.

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. Emergency Alerting: Capabilities Have Improved, but Additional Guidance and Testing Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Laird EC. Training social workers to use solution-focused interviewing with Child Protective Services clients: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justices Grapple With Whether Public Employees Enjoy Free-Speech Rights on the Job. New York Times 2005:A19.

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 Oncology
Abbreviation	Oral Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1368-8375
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Oral Surgery