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

Kauranen M. Physics. Freeing nonlinear optics from phase matching. Science. 2013;342(6163):1182-1183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Araújo MB, Rahbek C. Ecology. How does climate change affect biodiversity? Science. 2006;313(5792):1396-1397.

A journal article with 3 authors

Braunschweig H, Radacki K, Schneider A. Oxoboryl complexes: boron-oxygen triple bonds stabilized in the coordination sphere of platinum. Science. 2010;328(5976):345-347.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bargheer M, Zhavoronkov N, Gritsai Y, et al. Coherent atomic motions in a nanostructure studied by femtosecond X-ray diffraction. Science. 2004;306(5702):1771-1773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Borchard-Tuch C, Groß M. Was Biotronik Alles Kann. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Lendeckel U, Hooper NM, eds. Viral Proteases and Antiviral Protease Inhibitor Therapy: Proteases in Biology and Disease. Vol 8. Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson J. The China Monetary Policy Handbook. In: Barth JR, Tatom JA, Yago G, eds. China’s Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities. The Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth. Springer US; 2009:167-265.

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

O`Callaghan J. Scientists Just Dealt A Major Blow To The Search For Life. IFLScience. Published June 7, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-the-search-for-life/

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. National Science Foundation Conflict of Interest Problems With Grants to Short Term Employees. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barkley WC. Mars Rover - Laser Focusing and Optimization. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 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

Sisario B. The Pianist Behind Dylan’s Nobel Lecture. New York Times. June 7, 2017:C2.

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