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]

Krammer PH. CD95’s deadly mission in the immune system. Nature 2000;407:789–95.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Laughlin SB, Sejnowski TJ. Communication in neuronal networks. Science 2003;301:1870–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lineweaver CH, Fenner Y, Gibson BK. The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way. Science 2004;303:59–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

López-García P, Rodríguez-Valera F, Pedrós-Alió C, Moreira D. Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton. Nature 2001;409:603–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fulton BS. Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Castillo O, Pedrycz W, Kacprzyk J, editors. Evolutionary Design of Intelligent Systems in Modeling, Simulation and Control. vol. 257. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wen JG. Transmission Electron Microscopy. In: Sardela M, editor. Practical Materials Characterization, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 189–229.

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]

Luntz S. Scientists Have “Squeezed” Light. 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. Comments on H.R. 5103, Mineta letter. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Krishna S. Pediatric Pal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Walsh MW. Citing Storm, Puerto Rico Delays Plan. New York Times 2015:B5.

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