How to format your references using the Journal of Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 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

[1]

Gursky H. X-ray astronomy-40 years on. Science 2002;297:1485–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hudson PJ, Bjørnstad ON. Ecology. Vole stranglers and lemming cycles. Science 2003;302:797–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hammami A, Raymond N, Armand M. Lithium-ion batteries: runaway risk of forming toxic compounds. Nature 2003;424:635–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nicol S, Pauly T, Bindoff NL, Wright S, Thiele D, Hosie GW, et al. Ocean circulation off east Antarctica affects ecosystem structure and sea-ice extent. Nature 2000;406:504–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hopkins BR. Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Hinterdorfer P, Oijen A, editors. Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

de la Fuente MS, Sterli J, Maniel I. North Gondwana Pleurodiran Turtles. In: Sterli J, Maniel I, editors. Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 95–131.

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 Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. How To Study Europa’s Interior Without Drilling. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-study-europa-s-interior-without-drilling/ (accessed October 30, 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. LOCAL Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2005. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gnoinska MK. Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

Ember S, Grynbaum MM. Where the Future Isn’t So Glossy. New York Times 2017:BU1.

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 Stomatology oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
ISSN (print)	2468-7855
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