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

Altman, M.S., 2010. Chemistry. CO prefers the aisle seat. Science 327, 789–790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plous, S., Herzog, H., 2001. Animal research. Reliability of protocol reviews for animal research. Science 293, 608–609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Booker, J.R., Favetto, A., Pomposiello, M.C., 2004. Low electrical resistivity associated with plunging of the Nazca flat slab beneath Argentina. Nature 429, 399–403.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kitajima, T.S., Sakuno, T., Ishiguro, K.-I., Iemura, S.-I., Natsume, T., Kawashima, S.A., Watanabe, Y., 2006. Shugoshin collaborates with protein phosphatase 2A to protect cohesin. Nature 441, 46–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baudin, P., 2014. Wireless Transceiver Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Jarvis, S.A., Wright, S.A., Hammond, S.D. (Eds.), 2015. High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation: 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Aptekar, L., Stoecklin, D., 2014. Programs: Typical and Exemplary, in: Stoecklin, D. (Ed.), Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 163–216.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Is This Really What A Big Mac Does To Your Body In An Hour? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/really-what-big-mac-does-your-body-hour/ (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, 1992. Aviation Safety: Slow Progress, Uncertain Future Threaten FAA Program To Measure Safety (No. T-IMTEC-92-12). 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

Nguyen, J., 2012. Adherence to medications among Vietnamese Americans 65 years of age and older (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

Pilon, M., 2014. New York Mulls New Bid. New York Times B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Altman, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Altman, 2010; Plous and Herzog, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Plous and Herzog, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kitajima et al., 2006)

About the journal

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