How to format your references using the Odontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Odontology. 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. Alley RB. The key to the past? Nature. 2001;409:289.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Patrinos AAN, Bradley RA. Environment. Energy and technology policies for managing carbon risk. Science. 2009;325:949–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature. 2004;430:1044–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Abbaszadeh S, Scott CC, Bubon O, Reznik A, Karim KS. Enhanced detection efficiency of direct conversion X-ray detector using polyimide as hole-blocking layer. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rubin AB. Fundamentals of Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kato S. Ventilating Cities: Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living. Hiyama K, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. MacFarland TW, Yates JM. Mann–Whitney U Test. In: Yates JM, editor. Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics for the Biological Sciences Using R. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 103–32.

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 Odontology.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Weak Supernova Leaves Behind a Zombie Star. IFLScience. 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. Air Force Assessment of the Joint Strike Fighter’s Aerial Refueling Method. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Mar. Report No.: GAO-05-316R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Stephens AH. William Harold Fletcher (b. 1923): His life and career in music education at Oklahoma Christian University, 1950–2012 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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. Brantley B. Theater; Cue the Mayhem: Gogol Returns. New York Times. 2017 May 24;AR4.

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	Odontology
Abbreviation	Odontology
ISSN (print)	1618-1247
ISSN (online)	1618-1255
Scope	General Dentistry