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

Ahmed F (2010) Health: Edible advice. Nature 468:S10-2

A journal article with 2 authors

MacMillan T, Benton TG (2014) Agriculture: Engage farmers in research. Nature 509:25–27

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee I-H, Shin S, Choi T-L (2015) Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 347:1310–1311

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Galindo MI, Bishop SA, Greig S, Couso JP (2002) Leg patterning driven by proximal-distal interactions and EGFR signaling. Science 297:256–259

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maillard P (2013) Competitive Quality Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Li P, Silveira LM, Feldmann P (2011) Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Oren N (2014) Argument Schemes for Normative Practical Reasoning. In: Black E, Modgil S, Oren N (eds) Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation: Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–78

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

Andrew E (2015) Humans Are Wired For Prejudice But That Doesn’t Have To Be The End Of The Story. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/humans-are-wired-prejudice-doesn-t-have-be-end-story/. 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 (2013) Education Research: Preliminary Observations on the Institute of Education Sciences’ Research and Evaluation Efforts. 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

Vianna MH (2015) An exploration of the factors that influence Brazilian students’ fluency of English: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Vecsey G (2011) Accountability Would Seem to Begin and End With Referees. New York Times D3

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