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

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

Anand M (2014) Planetary science. Analyzing Moon rocks. Science 344:365–366

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleinteich T, Gorb SN (2014) Tongue adhesion in the horned frog Ceratophrys sp. Sci Rep 4:5225

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulton SW, Fralick PW, Canfield DE (2004) The transition to a sulphidic ocean approximately 1.84 billion years ago. Nature 431:173–177

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gold W, Ewing K, Banks J, et al (2006) Community collaborations. Collaborative ecological restoration. Science 312:1880–1881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller G, Ponick B (2005) Grundlagen elektrischer Maschinen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Winkler D, Biffl S, Bergsmann J (2014) Software Quality. Model-Based Approaches for Advanced Software and Systems Engineering: 6th International Conference, SWQD 2014, Vienna, Austria, January 14-16, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cho YJ, Park C, Rassias TM, Saadati R (2015) Stability of Functional Equations in C ∗-Ternary Algebras. In: Park C, Rassias TM, Saadati R (eds) Stability of Functional Equations in Banach Algebras. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 201–228

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.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Curiosity Takes “Low-Angle” Selfie. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Embedded Computer Systems: Significant Software Problems on C-17 Must Be Addressed. 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

Hatton H (2013) How Rural Elementary Building Principals Conceptualize the Programs in Their Schools, the Processes of Connecting Students to Programs, and Their Leadership Role in Doing So. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Wagner J (2016) Dodgers Rally, Then Call Upon Their Ace in 9th to Advance. New York Times B10

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
Abbreviation	Oral Maxillofac. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1865-1550
ISSN (online)	1865-1569
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery