How to format your references using the Otolaryngologia Polska citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Otolaryngologia Polska. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Brenner S. History of science. The revolution in the life sciences. Science 2012;338:1427–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Abrahamson J, Dinniss J. Ball lightning caused by oxidation of nanoparticle networks from normal lightning strikes on soil. Nature 2000;403:519–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lam FH, Steger DJ, O’Shea EK. Chromatin decouples promoter threshold from dynamic range. Nature 2008;453:246–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xu J, Gao Q, Zhang Y, Tan Y, Tian W, Zhu L, et al. Preparing two-dimensional microporous carbon from Pistachio nutshell with high areal capacitance as supercapacitor materials. Sci Rep 2014;4:5545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brown R. Rational Choice and Judgment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Premeaux E. Arduino Projects to Save the World. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Murthy CA, Saha S, Pal SK. Rough Set Based Ensemble Classifier. In: Kuznetsov SO, Ślęzak D, Hepting DH, Mirkin BG, editors. Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing: 13th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2011, Moscow, Russia, June 25-27, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 27–27.

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 Otolaryngologia Polska.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How Does Your Choice Of University Affect Your Future? 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. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Progress of the Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bebianno Simoes M. Work and social activism in the life stories of Latina domestic workers. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Protess B. Corzine Tries a Wall Street Comeback. New York Times 2017:BU1.

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	Otolaryngologia Polska
Abbreviation	Otolaryngol. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0030-6657
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology