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]

Abbott A. Europe’s X-ray observatory defies the jinx. Nature 2000;403:693.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Odegaard JI, Chawla A. Pleiotropic actions of insulin resistance and inflammation in metabolic homeostasis. Science 2013;339:172–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen AE, Ginty DD, Fan C-M. Protein kinase A signalling via CREB controls myogenesis induced by Wnt proteins. Nature 2005;433:317–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Martrat B, Grimalt JO, Lopez-Martinez C, Cacho I, Sierro FJ, Flores JA, et al. Abrupt temperature changes in the Western Mediterranean over the past 250,000 years. Science 2004;306:1762–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hagen J. Chemiereaktoren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Kulkarni A, Huet G, editors. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15-17, 2009. Proceedings. vol. 5406. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cha K-G, Lee M-C, Kim H-J. SMCSPO Based Force Estimation for Jetting Rate Control of 3D Printer Nozzle to Build a House. In: Liu H, Kubota N, Zhu X, Dillmann R, Zhou D, editors. Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 45–55.

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. Gray Wolf Pack Spotted In California For The First Time In 90 Years. IFLScience 2015.

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. Increasing Use of Data Telecommunications Calls for Stronger Protection and Improved Economies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hintz L. Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]

Grynbaum MM. CNN Severs Its Ties With a Host After His Vulgar Criticism of Trump. New York Times 2017:B3.

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

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