How to format your references using the European Journal of Oral Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Oral Sciences. 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

Romm J. Desertification: The next dust bowl. Nature. 2011 Oct 26;478(7370):450–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irion U, St Johnston D. bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature. 2007 Feb 1;445(7127):554–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalka MB, Smith AR, Kalko EKV. Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science. 2008 Apr 4;320(5872):71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Farh KKH, Grimson A, Jan C, Lewis BP, Johnston WK, Lim LP, et al. The widespread impact of mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA repression and evolution. Science. 2005 Dec 16;310(5755):1817–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright JR, Cooper JE. Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Eigen S. Weakly Wandering Sequences in Ergodic Theory. Hajian A, Ito Y, Prasad V, editors. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014. XIV, 153 p. 15 illus. (Springer Monographs in Mathematics).

A chapter in an edited book

Besenbacher S, Schwikowski B, Stoye J. Indexing and Searching a Mass Spectrometry Database. In: Elomaa T, Mannila H, Orponen P, editors. Algorithms and Applications: Essays Dedicated to Esko Ukkonen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 62–76. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 European Journal of Oral Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. China’s Moon Rover Is Officially Dead. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/chinas-moon-rover-is-officially-dead/

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. Job Corps: Better Targeted Career Training and Improved Preenrollment Information Could Enhance Female Residential Student Recruitment and Retention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Jun. Report No.: GAO-09-470.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glover D. Reconciling the doctrine of original sin with principles of moral responsibility [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times. 2010 Jun 19;D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	European Journal of Oral Sciences
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Oral Sci.
ISSN (print)	0909-8836
ISSN (online)	1600-0722
Scope	General Dentistry