How to format your references using the Orthodontic Waves citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Orthodontic Waves. 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]

Katsnelson MI. Chemistry. Just add water. Science 2010;329:1157–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maser RS, DePinho RA. Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science 2002;297:565–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Karsai M, Perra N, Vespignani A. Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties. Sci Rep 2014;4:4001.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Volpe TA, Kidner C, Hall IM, Teng G, Grewal SIS, Martienssen RA. Regulation of heterochromatic silencing and histone H3 lysine-9 methylation by RNAi. Science 2002;297:1833–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Russell DL. Practical Wastewater Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Peterson MP, editor. International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Quast M, Handel MJ, Favre J-M, Estublier J. Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos. In: Cordeiro J, Maciaszek LA, Filipe J, editors. Enterprise Information Systems: 14th International Conference, ICEIS 2012, Wroclaw, Poland, June 28 - July 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 55–71.

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 Orthodontic Waves.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Mars: Contamination, Planetary Protection And The Search For Life. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-contamination-planetary-protection-and-search-life/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pease M. Progress towards the Synthesis of a Potent, Bioavailable and Selective Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolase-1 Inactivator. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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. On Contraception, It’s Church Over State. New York Times 2017:SR10.

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	Orthodontic Waves
Abbreviation	Orthod. Waves
ISSN (print)	1344-0241
Scope	Orthodontics