How to format your references using the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases. 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]

Urquhart K. EUROPEAN SCIENCE: U.K. Unveils “Brain Gain” Initiative. Science 2000;289:713b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morton JJL, Mølmer K. Quantum information: Spin memories in for the long haul. Nature 2015;517:153–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fitch JP, Raber E, Imbro DR. Technology challenges in responding to biological or chemical attacks in the civilian sector. Science 2003;302:1350–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Winter SE, Thiennimitr P, Winter MG, Butler BP, Huseby DL, Crawford RW, et al. Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella. Nature 2010;467:426–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Singleton TW, Singleton AJ. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang J, editor. PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Catalyst Layers: Fundamentals and Applications. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liu X-J, Wang J. Velocity and Jacobian Analysis of Parallel Mechanisms. In: Wang J, editor. Parallel Kinematics: Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 121–8.

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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Permafrost-Eating Bacteria: A New Twist On Thawing Arctic And Global Warming. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/permafrost-eating-bacteria-new-twist-thawing-arctic-and-global-warming/ (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. Teacher Training: Over $1.5 Billion Federal Funds Invested in Many Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schoenecker KD. Determinants of life satisfaction: Generated and ranked by undergraduate college students. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana 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]

Goldstein M, Protess B. Outline Fails to Mention Loophole for the Very Rich. New York Times 2017:A19.

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	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases
ISSN (print)	2214-5419
Scope