How to format your references using the World Journal of Stomatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Stomatology. 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

Maureille B. A lost Neanderthal neonate found. Nature 2002; 419: 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doebeli M, Ispolatov I. Complexity and diversity. Science 2010; 328: 494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nestle FO, Speidel H, Speidel MO. Metallurgy: high nickel release from 1- and 2-euro coins. Nature 2002; 419: 132.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Suárez G, Santschi C, Slaveykova VI, Martin OJF. Sensing the dynamics of oxidative stress using enhanced absorption in protein-loaded random media. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perlmutter DD, Rothstein RL. The Challenge of Climate Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Kirsch R (ed). Groundwater Geophysics: A Tool for Hydrogeology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Kuczaj SA, Highfill LE, Makecha RN, Byerly HC. Why Do Dolphins Smile? A Comparative Perspective on Dolphin Emotions and Emotional Expressions. In: Watanabe S, Kuczaj S, editors. Emotions of Animals and Humans: Comparative Perspectives. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2012: 63–85.

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 World Journal of Stomatology.

Blog post

Davis J. Scientists Determine Body Temperature Of Dinosaurs By Analyzing Fossil Eggshells. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-determine-temperature-dinosaurs-analyzing-fossil-eggshells/

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. Space Station: Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle Fleet. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frisbee KL. The impact of mobile health (mhealth) technology on family caregiver’s burden levels and an assessment of variations in mhealth tool use. 2015.

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

Novick SM. Turkey and Trimmings, Without Dishes to Do. New York Times. 2015; : LI11.

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	World Journal of Stomatology
ISSN (online)	2218-6263
Scope