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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 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

[1]

Ferguson CD. Do not phase out nuclear power - yet. Nature 2011;471:411.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dimond A, Fraser P. Molecular biology. Long noncoding RNAs Xist in three dimensions. Science 2013;341:720–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaminski J, Call J, Fischer J. Word learning in a domestic dog: evidence for “fast mapping.” Science 2004;304:1682–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nurieva RI, Chung Y, Martinez GJ, Yang XO, Tanaka S, Matskevitch TD, et al. Bcl6 mediates the development of T follicular helper cells. Science 2009;325:1001–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dijksterhuis GB. Multivariate Data Analysis in Sensory and Consumer Science. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Natal Jorge RM, Tavares JMRS, Pinotti Barbosa M, Slade AP, editors. Technologies for Medical Sciences. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Smith B. Families of Fast Elliptic Curves from ℚ-curves. In: Sako K, Sarkar P, editors. Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2013: 19th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Bengaluru, India, December 1-5, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 61–78.

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 European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Can Zoos Save The World? IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Teenage Drug Use: Uncertain Linkages With Either Pregnancy or School Dropout. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Salifu A. Names that prick: Royal praise names in Dagbon, northern Ghana. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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

[1]

Brantley B. Returning Home, and All’s Not Well. New York Times 2016:C1.

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	European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0301-2115
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine