How to format your references using the Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 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

Church G. Let us go forth and safely multiply. Nature. 2005;438(7067):423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tegler SC, Romanishin W. Extremely red Kuiper-belt objects in near-circular orbits beyond 40 AU. Nature. 2000;407(6807):979-981.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith DE, Zuber MT, Neumann GA. Seasonal variations of snow depth on Mars. Science. 2001;294(5549):2141-2146.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marvier M, McCreedy C, Regetz J, Kareiva P. A meta-analysis of effects of Bt cotton and maize on nontarget invertebrates. Science. 2007;316(5830):1475-1477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenberger WR. Risk-Adjusted Lending Conditions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Migon P, ed. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World. Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

L’Hostis A. Theoretical Models of Time-Space: The Role of Transport Networks in the Shrinking and Shrivelling of Geographical Space. In: Rozenblat C, Melançon G, eds. Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks. Springer Netherlands; 2013:55-66.

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 Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Colorful “Dragon Scales” On Pluto Perplex Scientists. IFLScience. September 25, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-perplexes-scientists/

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. Cybersecurity: Recent Data Breaches Illustrate Need for Strong Controls across Federal Agencies. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolff A. PRIDE: A Psycho-Educational Peer Support Group for LGBTIQ Youth: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Barker K, Taylor K. Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest. New York Times. October 2, 2014:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
Abbreviation	Oral Surg. Oral Med. Oral Pathol. Oral Radiol.
ISSN (print)	2212-4403
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Surgery Dentistry (miscellaneous) Oral Surgery