How to format your references using the Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Mandavilli A (2007) Reinventing an industry. Nature 445:138–139

A journal article with 2 authors

Grodzinsky Y, Nelken I (2014) Neuroscience. The neural code that makes us human. Science 343:978–979

A journal article with 3 authors

Fialkov A, Barkana R, Visbal E (2014) The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization. Nature 506:197–199

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goshima G, Wollman R, Goodwin SS, et al (2007) Genes required for mitotic spindle assembly in Drosophila S2 cells. Science 316:417–421

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joyner M (2009) Integration Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kitada M, Williams E, Froholdt LL (2015) Maritime Women: Global Leadership. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bostan I, Gheorghe A, Dulgheru V, et al (2013) Kinetical Energy of River Running Water. In: Gheorghe A, Dulgheru V, Sobor I, et al (eds) Resilient Energy Systems: Renewables: Wind, Solar, Hydro. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 165–360

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 Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) 99% Of All Seabird Species Will Likely Be Eating Plastic By 2050. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/99-all-seabird-species-will-likely-be-eating-plastic-2050/. 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 (1993) Contract Award Practices: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Generally Observes Competitive Principles. 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

Luna AC (2009) Analysis of the California Mental Health Services Act. 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

Smith M, GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES (2017) Pipeline Again Divides Nebraska. New York Times A12

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	Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Abbreviation	Arch. Gynecol. Obstet.
ISSN (print)	0932-0067
ISSN (online)	1432-0711
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology