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

Shanklin J (2010) Reflections on the ozone hole. Nature 465:34–35

A journal article with 2 authors

Edgar BA, Kim KJ (2009) Cell biology. Sizing up the cell. Science 325:158–159

A journal article with 3 authors

Park HH, Woo K, Ahn J-P (2013) Core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles robustly fixed on the outermost surface of magnetic silica microspheres. Sci Rep 3:1497

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Budanov AV, Sablina AA, Feinstein E, et al (2004) Regeneration of peroxiredoxins by p53-regulated sestrins, homologs of bacterial AhpD. Science 304:596–600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King M (2011) Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chaudhuri KR (2011) Handbook of Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease. Springer Healthcare UK, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hall M, Chame J, Chen C, et al (2010) Loop Transformation Recipes for Code Generation and Auto-Tuning. In: Gao GR, Pollock LL, Cavazos J, Li X (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 22nd International Workshop, LCPC 2009, Newark, DE, USA, October 8-10, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 50–64

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

Davis J (2017) Both Wolves And Dogs Stop Cooperating If They Know They’ve Been Cheated. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/both-wolves-and-dogs-stop-cooperating-if-they-know-theyve-been-cheated-/. 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 (1996) Railroad Safety: DOT Faces Challenges in Improving Grade Crossing Safety, Track Inspection Standards, and Passenger Car Safety. 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

Cano M (2015) An in-home visitation program for homebound older adult Veterans: A grant proposal. 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

Vecsey G (2010) Calling on Old Reliable to Breathe New Life. New York Times D2

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