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]

Lightman A. A tale of two loves. Nature 2005;434:299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jacob L, Lum L. Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease. Science 2007;318:66–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schirle NT, Sheu-Gruttadauria J, MacRae IJ. Structural basis for microRNA targeting. Science 2014;346:608–13.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Kumar KR, Li L, Yan M, Bhaskarabhatla M, Mobley AB, Nguyen C, et al. Regulation of B cell tolerance by the lupus susceptibility gene Ly108. Science 2006;312:1665–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moll W, Moll A. Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Al-Khalili J, Roeckl E, editors. The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. II. vol. 700. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Le T-H, Elghazel H, Hacid M-S. A Relational-Based Approach for Aggregated Search in Graph Databases. In: Lee S-G, Peng Z, Zhou X, Moon Y-S, Unland R, Yoo J, editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, Busan, South Korea, April 15-19, 2012, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 33–47.

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

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Fang J. Salmon Growth Stunted By Freshwater Acidification. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/salmon-growth-stunted-freshwater-acidification/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

James M. Numerical Study of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability. 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]

Feeney K. His Spices Are a Secret. New York Times 2008:NJ11.

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

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