How to format your references using the Oral Diseases citation style

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

McKeon BJ (2010). Applied physics. Controlling turbulence. Science 327: 1462–1463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyman T, Simons K (2007). A pipeline for Europe. Nature 449: 256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trail D, Watson EB, Tailby ND (2011). The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere. Nature 480: 79–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bottjer DJ, Davidson EH, Peterson KJ, Cameron RA (2006). Paleogenomics of echinoderms. Science 314: 956–960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL (1997). Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Starke K, Gaestel M (Eds.) (2006). Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu C, Fang Z, Li J (2013). Practices, Experience and Policy Orientation for Free Education in Normal Universities in China. In: Zhu X, Zeichner K, eds. Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–76.

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 Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013). Teenage Girl in China Grows New Face on Her Chest. IFLScience.

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 (1977). The SEASAT-A Project: Where It Stands Today. 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

Zhong A (2017). Product Development Considerations for a Nutrient Rich Bar Using Cricket (Acheta domesticus) Protein. Doctoral dissertation California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sisario B (2017). Pink’s Latest Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McKeon, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hyman and Simons, 2007; McKeon, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hyman and Simons, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bottjer et al, 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oral Diseases
Abbreviation	Oral Dis.
ISSN (print)	1354-523X
ISSN (online)	1601-0825
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology General Dentistry