How to format your references using the Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive 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	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

Roccanova L (2000) Ph.D.’s as Science Teachers: Notes from the Field. Science 290:1098a

A journal article with 2 authors

Pope BD, Gilbert DM (2014) Genetics: Up and down in Down’s syndrome. Nature 508:323–324

A journal article with 3 authors

Holmberg J, Clarke DL, Frisén J (2000) Regulation of repulsion versus adhesion by different splice forms of an Eph receptor. Nature 408:203–206

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chini R, Hoffmeister V, Kimeswenger S, et al (2004) The formation of a massive protostar through the disk accretion of gas. Nature 429:155–157

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray B (2015) The Possibility of Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Stewart JM, Oosterhuis DM, Heitholt JJ, Mauney JR (2010) Physiology of Cotton, 1st ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kreimeyer M, Lindemann U (2011) Complexity Metrics for Design Processes. In: Lindemann U (ed) Complexity Metrics in Engineering Design: Managing the Structure of Design Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 133–172

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 Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Video Games Could Be A Tool To Help People Out Of Depression. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/video-games-could-be-a-tool-to-help-people-out-of-depression/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2012) Postsecondary Education: Financial Trends in Public and Private Nonprofit Institutions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilman DG (2013) Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Johnson G (2014) A Tumor, the Embryo’s Evil Twin. New York Times D5

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	Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Abbreviation	Maxillofac. Plast. Reconstr. Surg.
ISSN (online)	2288-8586
Scope