How to format your references using the Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale. 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]

Kaufman F. Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water. Nature 2012;490:469–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ketov SV, Louzguine-Luzgin DV. Localized shear deformation and softening of bulk metallic glass: stress or temperature driven? Sci Rep 2013;3:2798.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen J, Carlson BE, Del Genio AD. Evidence for strengthening of the tropical general circulation in the 1990s. Science 2002;295:838–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yoon JW, Choi Y, Hahn C, Kim G, Song SH, Yang K-Y, et al. Time-asymmetric loop around an exceptional point over the full optical communications band. Nature 2018;562:86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bai Y. Practical Database Programming with Visual C#.NET. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Raghavan NRS, Cafeo JA, editors. Product Research: The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bambi C, Dolgov AD. Cosmological Models. In: Dolgov AD, editor. Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 53–70.

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 Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Underwater Explosions In Slow-Motion Look Absolutely Awesome. IFLScience 2016.

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. Inventory Management: The Army Could Reduce Logistics Costs for Aviation Parts by Adopting Best Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Roy R. “Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 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

[1]

Feeney K. Amid Marshmallow Mountains. New York Times 2011:NJ9.

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	Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale
Abbreviation	Rev. Stomatol. Chir. Maxillofac. Chir. Orale
ISSN (print)	2213-6533
Scope	General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery