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]

Macfarlane AM. Nuclear policy. The overlooked back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Science 2011;333:1225–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Robertson WH, Johnson MA. Chemistry. Caught in the act of dissolution. Science 2002;298:69.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kuhlenkoetter S, Wintermeyer W, Rodnina MV. Different substrate-dependent transition states in the active site of the ribosome. Nature 2011;476:351–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wolkers MC, Brouwenstijn N, Bakker AH, Toebes M, Schumacher TNM. Antigen bias in T cell cross-priming. Science 2004;304:1314–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ndjountche T. Digital Electronics 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

He B, editor. Modeling and Imaging of Bioelectrical Activity: Principles and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Roberts P. Education, Society and the Individual. In: Roberts P, editor. From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012, p. 55–64.

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 European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Blog post

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Hale T. Drone Captures Beautiful Footage Of Gray Whales Swimming With Dolphins. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beautiful-drone-footage-gray-whales-swimming-dolphins/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. [Recommendation to Congress To Relieve FAA Employee of Liability for Erroneous Payment]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pierre RR. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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]

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times 2015:C29.

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