How to format your references using the Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports. 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

Dermitzakis, E.T., 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Genome literacy. Science 331, 689–690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Franks, N.R., Richardson, T., 2006. Teaching in tandem-running ants. Nature 439, 153.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y., Magan, J.J., Blau, W.J., 2014. A general strategy for hybrid thin film fabrication and transfer onto arbitrary substrates. Sci. Rep. 4, 4822.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka, H., Okano, Y., Kobayashi, H., Suzuki, W., Kobayashi, A., 2001. A three-dimensional synthetic metallic crystal composed of single-component molecules. Science 291, 285–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morvillo, N., 2010. Science and Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Zhou, W., 2016. Stability and Synchronization Control of Stochastic Neural Networks, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Deblonde, M., 2010. Responsible Agro-Food Biotechnology: Precaution as Public Reflexivity and Ongoing Engagement in the Service of Sustainable Development, in: Gottwald, F.-T., Ingensiep, H.W., Meinhardt, M. (Eds.), Food Ethics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 67–85.

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 Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Battle Of The Deep Sea Monsters: Colossal Squid Vs Giant Toothfish [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Credit Cards: Marketing to College Students Appears to Have Declined (No. GAO-14-225). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cong, M., 2015. Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., Alter, A., Chan, S., 2016. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining the Boundaries of Literature. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dermitzakis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dermitzakis, 2011; Franks and Richardson, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Franks and Richardson, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports
ISSN (print)	2211-338X
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