How to format your references using the Brazilian Oral Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Oral Research (BOR). 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 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

von Huene R. Geophysics. When seamounts subduct. Science. 2008 Aug;321(5893):1165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaywitz D., Dansky H. Found in translation. Nature. 2007 Apr;446(7136):700.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler UK., Bogdanov AN., Pfleiderer C. Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature. 2006 Aug;442(7104):797–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Searle IR., Men AE., Laniya TS., Buzas DM., Iturbe-Ormaetxe I., Carroll BJ., et al. Long-distance signaling in nodulation directed by a CLAVATA1-like receptor kinase. Science. 2003 Jan;299(5603):109–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nedoma J., Stehlík J., Hlaváček I., Daněk J., Dostálová T., Přečková P. Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Rocha L., Cavalheiro EA. Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy: From Genes and Molecules to Promising Therapies. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. XII, 329 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman M., Kandel A. Differentiable Functions. In: Kandel A, editor. Calculus Light. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 107–46.

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 Brazilian Oral Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Dress Returns: This Time With Science! IFLScience. [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dress/.

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. Possible Increased Use of the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) by Government Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tosti CL. Quantification of dispersed and aggregated iron in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2009.

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

Billard M. New Pose On the Mat: The Sleuth. New York Times. 2011:MB1.

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	Brazilian Oral Research
ISSN (print)	1806-8324
ISSN (online)	1807-3107
Scope