How to format your references using the Dentomaxillofacial Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. 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

Bollen G. Chemistry. Measuring the heaviest atoms. Science. 2012 Sep 7;337(6099):1183–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donia MS, Fischbach MA. HUMAN MICROBIOTA. Small molecules from the human microbiota. Science. 2015 Jul 24;349(6246):1254766.

A journal article with 3 authors

Della Negra M, Jenni P, Virdee TS. Journey in the search for the Higgs boson: the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Science. 2012 Dec 21;338(6114):1560–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pillai RS, Bhattacharyya SN, Artus CG, Zoller T, Cougot N, Basyuk E, et al. Inhibition of translational initiation by Let-7 MicroRNA in human cells. Science. 2005 Sep 2;309(5740):1573–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

McGee RW, editor. Taxation and Public Finance in Transition and Developing Economies. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008. X, 680 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sworder DD, Boyd JE. Classification and Target Tempo. In: Boyd JE, editor. Locating, Classifying and Countering Agile Land Vehicles: With Applications to Command Architectures. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 113–40.

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 Dentomaxillofacial Radiology.

Blog post

Hale T. Fisherman Catches A One-In-Two-Million Blue Lobster For The Second Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fisherman-catches-a-oneintwomillion-blue-lobster-for-the-second-time/

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. Forest Service Is Making Progress in Developing a Nationwide Geographic Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Apr. Report No.: T-IMTEC-91-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pearson RS. Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Dynarski S. With a Crucial Tool Disabled, Financial Aid Applications Get Harder. New York Times. 2017 Mar 13;A10.

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	Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
Abbreviation	Dentomaxillofac. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	0250-832X
ISSN (online)	1476-542X
Scope	General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging General Dentistry