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

Adam D. Plans for GM livestock fail the poor. Nature. 2001;411(6836):403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rignot E, Jacobs SS. Rapid bottom melting widespread near Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding lines. Science. 2002;296(5575):2020-2023.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sta Ana JL, Frankel MS, Berger KM. Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science. 2009;326(5957):1193.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakahata Y, Sahar S, Astarita G, Kaluzova M, Sassone-Corsi P. Circadian control of the NAD+ salvage pathway by CLOCK-SIRT1. Science. 2009;324(5927):654-657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Passarelli D. Trading Options Greeks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Rajendram R, Preedy VR, Patel VB, eds. Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 1. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Burger M, Hinze M, Pinnau R. Optimization models for semiconductor dopant profiling. In: Cercignani C, Gabetta E, eds. Transport Phenomena and Kinetic Theory: Applications to Gases, Semiconductors, Photons, and Biological Systems. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser; 2007:91-115.

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 D. Eat Your Fibre Or Face The Flesh-Eating Microbe Cannibals. IFLScience. November 23, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eat-your-fibre-or-face-the-flesheating-microbe-cannibals/

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. West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Evans B. An Integrated Program for Homeless Adults with Co-Occurring Mental and Subtance Use Disorders: 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

Williams J. Beguiling Tales Of Women And Change. New York Times. August 2, 2017:C6.

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