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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Wassarman PM. Reproductive biology: Sperm protein finds its mate. Nature 2014;508:466–7.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Kourtzi Z, Kanwisher N. Representation of perceived object shape by the human lateral occipital complex. Science 2001;293:1506–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Henry GT, Fortner CK, Bastian KC. The effects of experience and attrition for novice high-school science and mathematics teachers. Science 2012;335:1118–21.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Langer F, Schmid CP, Schlauderer S, Gmitra M, Fabian J, Nagler P, et al. Lightwave valleytronics in a monolayer of tungsten diselenide. Nature 2018;557:76–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Sewell G. The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.
An edited book
[1]
Azambuja JR. Hybrid Fault Tolerance Techniques to Detect Transient Faults in Embedded Processors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Canali S, Corbellini G. Clinical, Epidemiological, and Genetic Investigations on Thalassemia and Malaria in Italy. In: Arese P, editor. Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006, p. 55–80.

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]
Fang J. Hair from Ancient Mummies Reveals Peruvian Paleodiets. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hair-centuries-old-mummies-reveal-peruvian-paleodiets/ (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. Student Eligibility and Other Problems in Federally Funded and Operated Schools in Puerto Rico. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Gnoinska MK. Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]
Vecsey G. A Script, or Woods’s Road to Recovery? New York Times 2010:B18.

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 titleRevue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale
AbbreviationRev. Stomatol. Chir. Maxillofac. Chir. Orale
ISSN (print)2213-6533
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Otorhinolaryngology
Surgery
Oral Surgery

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