How to format your references using the Gynecologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecologic Oncology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

T.J. Marks, Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007), Science. 316 (2007) 214.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.J. Tao, W. Zheng, Biochemistry. Visualizing the influenza genome, Science. 338 (2012) 1545–1546.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Venditti, A. Meade, M. Pagel, Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen, Nature. 463 (2010) 349–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-H. Choi, W.-H. Ryu, K. Park, J.-D. Jo, S.-M. Jo, D.-S. Lim, I.-D. Kim, Multi-layer electrode with nano-Li4Ti5O12 aggregates sandwiched between carbon nanotube and graphene networks for high power Li-ion batteries, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7334.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. de Graaf, Magnetic Interactions in Molecules and Solids, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.F. Walls, G.J. Milburn, Representations of the Electromagnetic Field, in: D.F. Walls, G.J. Milburn (Eds.), Quantum Optics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 57–72.

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.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, New Device To Help Police Catch Cocaine-Using Drivers, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-device-to-help-police-catch-cocaineusing-drivers/ (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, Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Actions to Improve Safety Are Under Way, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Litt, Social networking sites and adolescent alcohol use: The role of social images, social norms, and social comparison, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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]

J. Gorman, All Aboard an ‘Alien Starship,’ New York Times. (2017) D2.

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	Gynecologic Oncology
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	0090-8258
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oncology