How to format your references using the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology. 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]

Victora GD. Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Stop, go, and evolve. Science 2013;342:1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gillson L, Hoffman MT. Ecology. Rangeland ecology in a changing world. Science 2007;315:53–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Colón-Ramos DA, Margeta MA, Shen K. Glia promote local synaptogenesis through UNC-6 (netrin) signaling in C. elegans. Science 2007;318:103–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bachnoff N, Cohen-Kutner M, Trus M, Atlas D. Intra-membrane signaling between the voltage-gated Ca2+-channel and cysteine residues of syntaxin 1A coordinates synchronous release. Sci Rep 2013;3:1620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abner DJ. The ETF Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Jonkman MF, editor. Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Text and Review. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Grimm F, Fets L, Anastasiou D. Gas Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS) to Study Metabolism in Cultured Cells. In: Koumenis C, Coussens LM, Giaccia A, Hammond E, editors. Tumor Microenvironment: Study Protocols, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 59–88.

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 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Smoking During Pregnancy Could Affect Your Grandchildren’s Growth. IFLScience 2014.

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. Desert Shield/Storm: U.S. Transportation Command’s Support of Operation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ponder S. Parent information nights: An elementary school principal’s search to increase parent input and affect the learning-at-home environment. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

Dewan S, Schwartz J. Comparing Harvey With Katrina. New York Times 2017:A9.

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	Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology
Abbreviation	J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. Med. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	2212-5558
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