How to format your references using the World Journal of Stomatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Stomatology. 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

Ward BB. Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science 2013; 341: 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberson ED, Mucke L. 100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer’s disease. Science 2006; 314: 781–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mungall JE, Ames DE, Hanley JJ. Geochemical evidence from the Sudbury structure for crustal redistribution by large bolide impacts. Nature 2004; 429: 546–548.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Björkman T, Kurasch S, Lehtinen O, Kotakoski J, Yazyev OV, Srivastava A, Skakalova V, Smet JH, Kaiser U, Krasheninnikov AV. Defects in bilayer silica and graphene: common trends in diverse hexagonal two-dimensional systems. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Imrie R, Street E. Architectural Design and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Sporleder C, Bosch A van D, Zervanou K (eds). Language Technology for Cultural Heritage: Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Galton A, Worboys M. Processes and Events in Dynamic Geo-Networks. In: Rodríguez MA, Cruz I, Levashkin S, Egenhofer MJ, editors. GeoSpatial Semantics: First International Conference, GeoS 2005, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005: 45–59.

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 World Journal of Stomatology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Weekend Warrior Exercise: Is It Good For You? IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/weekend-warrior-exercise-is-it-food-for-you/

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. Improvement Needed In Documenting Computer Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bankas JK. CAFE—Community and Family Enrichment: Toward Community-Based Mental Health Support for Families. 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

Grynbaum MM. Familiar Cycle of Partisan Combat Churns Again, and Trump Is Again at the Center. New York Times. 2017; : A6.

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	World Journal of Stomatology
ISSN (online)	2218-6263
Scope