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]

Branch D. Astrophysics. When a white dwarf explodes. Science 2003;299:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Snaith HA, Sawin KE. Fission yeast mod5p regulates polarized growth through anchoring of tea1p at cell tips. Nature 2003;423:647–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Childs AM, Gosset D, Webb Z. Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science 2013;339:791–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aihara I, Mizumoto T, Otsuka T, Awano H, Nagira K, Okuno HG, et al. Spatio-temporal dynamics in collective frog choruses examined by mathematical modeling and field observations. Sci Rep 2014;4:3891.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Phillips JJ, Brantley W, Phillips PP. Project Management ROI. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang J, editor. Immune Regulation and Immunotherapy in Autoimmune Disease. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wieland T, Fenne M, Stöcker B. Background Data Acquisition and Carrying: The BlueDACS Project. In: Grass W, Sick B, Waldschmidt K, editors. Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006: 19th International Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 56–68.

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]

Taub B. Indian Woman In Her Seventies Gives Birth To First Child. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/indian-woman-her-seventies-gives-birth-first-child/ (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. Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Daly KM. Cinema 3.0: How digital and computer technologies are changing cinema. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2008.

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]

Crow K. Check That Label, Jake. I Think It’s Chinatown. New York Times 2003:147.

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