How to format your references using the Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale. 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]

Marra J. When will we tame the oceans? Nature 2005;436:175–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Wilson JH, Elledge SJ. Cancer. BRCA2 enters the fray. Science 2002;297:1822–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature 2009;461:501–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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del Rio A, Perez-Jimenez R, Liu R, Roca-Cusachs P, Fernandez JM, Sheetz MP. Stretching single talin rod molecules activates vinculin binding. Science 2009;323:638–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Mullaney MD. The Complete Guide to Option Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Howard RJ, Gow NAR, editors. Biology of the Fungal Cell. vol. 8. 2nd Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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Mucha H-J. Classification, Clustering, and Visualisation Based on Dual Scaling. In: Gaul W, Geyer-Schulz A, Baba Y, Okada A, editors. German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 59–69.

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 Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale.

Blog post

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O`Callaghan J. Earth May Have Formed Earlier Than 92% Of Other Habitable Planets. IFLScience 2015.

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. Education and Labor: Information on the Departments’ Field Offices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Newcomb S. Reliability of the CVI range: A functional vision assessment for children with cortical visual impairment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

Novick SM. A Brasserie With an Irreverent Side. New York Times 2016:LI5.

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	Revue de Stomatologie, de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale et de Chirurgie Orale
Abbreviation	Rev. Stomatol. Chir. Maxillofac. Chir. Orale
ISSN (print)	2213-6533
Scope	General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery