How to format your references using the Archives of Oral Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Oral Biology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Faubert, J. (2013). Professional athletes have extraordinary skills for rapidly learning complex and neutral dynamic visual scenes. Scientific Reports, 3, 1154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, G. Y. C., & Otto, M. (2015). Microbiology: Diverted on the way to memory. Nature, 517(7532), 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qi, Y., Dolgushev, M., & Zhang, Z. (2014). Dynamics of semiflexible recursive small-world polymer networks. Scientific Reports, 4, 7576.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, M., Indra, A. K., Warot, X., Brocard, J., Messaddeq, N., Kato, S., Metzger, D., & Chambon, P. (2000). Skin abnormalities generated by temporally controlled RXRalpha mutations in mouse epidermis. Nature, 407(6804), 633–636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, R. A., & Hilton, A. C. (2010). Statistical Analysis in Microbiology: Statnotes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Layton, W. J. (2012). Approximate Deconvolution Models of Turbulence: Analysis, Phenomenology and Numerical Analysis (L. Rebholz, Ed.; Vol. 2042). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Catthoor, F., Raghavan, P., Lambrechts, A., Jayapala, M., Kritikakou, A., & Absar, J. (2010). Clustered L0 (Loop) Buffer Organization and Combination with Data Clusters. In P. Raghavan, A. Lambrechts, M. Jayapala, A. Kritikakou, & J. Absar (Eds.), Ultra-Low Energy Domain-Specific Instruction-Set Processors (pp. 115–141). Springer Netherlands.

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 Archives of Oral Biology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 23). Women Were Out Reproducing Men 4,000 Years Ago. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-were-out-reproducing-men-4000-years-ago/

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. (1999). Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports (RCED-99-234). 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

Rutherford, K. B. (2017). 500 Year Chenier, Architecture, Cultural Identity, and Land Change “Identification in a Dynamic Place” [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, June 1). TV’s New Jukebox: Songs Steal the Scene. New York Times, AR23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Faubert, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cheung & Otto, 2015; Faubert, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cheung & Otto, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Oral Biology
Abbreviation	Arch. Oral Biol.
ISSN (print)	0003-9969
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology General Dentistry