How to format your references using the The Angle Orthodontist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Angle Orthodontist. 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

Abbott A. Babies’ cancer screens “not needed.” Nature. 2002;416:356.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer JM, Roth VL. The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. Science. 2003;299:1568-1572.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science. 2005;310:493-496.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roger T, Heitz JJF, Wright EM, Faccio D. Non-collinear interaction of photons with orbital angular momentum. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan MM, Islam MR. Zero Waste Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Sarbo JJ. Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation. (Farkas JI, Breemen AJJ van, eds.). Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Hern DM, Nozaki Y. Kenyan Education. In: Nozaki Y, ed. Natural Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Schools in Kenya: Toward Critical Postcolonial Curriculum Policies and Practices. SensePublishers; 2014:47-62.

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 The Angle Orthodontist.

Blog post

Luntz S. Italy’s Volcanic Rocks Like Reinforced Roman Concrete. IFLScience. Published 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/italys-volcanic-rocks-reinforced-roman-concrete/

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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cope JA. Coastal squeeze of vegetation zones in the Los Cerritos Wetlands: The effect of sea level rise. Published online 2015.

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

Paulson M. Friends, Romans, Presidents. New York Times. June 13, 2017:C1.

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	The Angle Orthodontist
ISSN (print)	0003-3219
ISSN (online)	1945-7103
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