How to format your references using the Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lieberman P. Neuroscience. Synapses, language, and being human. Science. 2013;342(6161):944-945.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarewitz D, Nelson R. Three rules for technological fixes. Nature. 2008;456(7224):871-872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim J, Park SM, Cho KH. Discovery of a kernel for controlling biomolecular regulatory networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nelson CT, Gao P, Jokisaari JR, et al. Domain dynamics during ferroelectric switching. Science. 2011;334(6058):968-971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair R, Regenstein JM. Genetic Modification and Food Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Benedetti R. Sampling Spatial Units for Agricultural Surveys. (Piersimoni F, Postiglione P, eds.). Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Duchateau F, Bellahsene Z. YAM: A Step Forward for Generating a Dedicated Schema Matcher. In: Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, eds. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2016:150-185.

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 Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew E. Revealed: Why Some Corals Are More Colourful Than Others. IFLScience. February 2, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/revealed-why-some-corals-are-more-colourful-others/

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. Oil and Gas Transportation: Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipeline Safety. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stanford CJ. Highly Sensitive Fiber Bragg Grating Biosensors. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2008.

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

Peters JF, Nikas J, Lyons E. Youth in San Diego: Skateboards, Beach Hangs and Chicano Culture. New York Times. September 9, 2017:ST4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Ovarian Other Gynecol. Canc.
ISSN (print)	2212-9553
Scope