How to format your references using the Seminars in Orthodontics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Orthodontics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Turney J. Strings and things. Nature. 2001;410(6831):873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krueger AB, Malecková J. Attitudes and action: public opinion and the occurrence of international terrorism. Science. 2009;325(5947):1534-1536.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE. Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science. 2013;339(6118):413-416.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin QY, Mason JA, Li Z, et al. Building superlattices from individual nanoparticles via template-confined DNA-mediated assembly. Science. 2018;359(6376):669-672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler H. Food Industry Innovation School, The. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Schwarzbauer J. From Biomolecules to Chemofossils. (Jovančićević B, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kira JI. Multiple Sclerosis: Etiology and Mechanism, with Special Reference to Asians. In: Kusunoki S, ed. Neuroimmunological Diseases. Springer Japan; 2016:73-103.

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 Seminars in Orthodontics.

Blog post

Luntz S. GPS Satellites Could Find Dark Matter. IFLScience. Published November 18, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/gps-satellites-could-find-dark-matter/

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

Government Accountability Office. Public-Safety Broadband Network: FirstNet Should Strengthen Internal Controls and Evaluate Lessons Learned. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herrera K. Improved Transportation for Older Adult Volunteers: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Shear MD. Trump, Inspired by France, Wants to Show Off Military Might With a July 4 Parade. New York Times. September 18, 2017:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Seminars in Orthodontics
Abbreviation	Semin. Orthod.
ISSN (print)	1073-8746
Scope	Orthodontics