How to format your references using the Current Oral Health Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Oral Health Reports. 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

1. Monroe C. Quantum information processing with atoms and photons. Nature. 2002;416:238–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pokrovski GS, Dubrovinsky LS. The S3- ion is stable in geological fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures. Science. 2011;331:1052–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mitchell A, Wei P, Lim WA. Oscillatory stress stimulation uncovers an Achilles’ heel of the yeast MAPK signaling network. Science. 2015;350:1379–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Beck PG, Montalban J, Kallinger T, De Ridder J, Aerts C, García RA, et al. Fast core rotation in red-giant stars as revealed by gravity-dominated mixed modes. Nature. 2011;481:55–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nazarov VE, Radostin AV. Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Lytras MD, Ordonez de Pablos P, Damiani E, Avison D, Naeve A, Horner DG, editors. Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dubois D. Degrees of Truth, Ill-Known Sets and Contradiction. In: Bouchon-Meunier B, Magdalena L, Ojeda-Aciego M, Verdegay J-L, Yager RR, editors. Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 65–83.

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 Current Oral Health Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Alignment Of Planets May Explain Sun’s Mysterious Cycle [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/alignment-of-planets-may-explain-suns-mysterious-cycle/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Sep. Report No.: T-RCED-90-111.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McCollough KD. Applying Military Developments in Netcentricity to Civilian Emergency Management [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Court Puts Teeth in “Notice” Needed to Seize Property. New York Times. 2006 Apr 27;A18.

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	Current Oral Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Oral Health Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-3002
Scope