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

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

Hoag, H., 2003. In search of form and function. Nature 425, 880–881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yarger, J.L., Wolf, G.H., 2004. Chemistry. Polymorphism in liquids. Science 306, 820–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huey, D.J., Hu, J.C., Athanasiou, K.A., 2012. Unlike bone, cartilage regeneration remains elusive. Science 338, 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lorenz, T., Hofmann, M., Grüninger, M., Freimuth, A., Uhrig, G.S., Dumm, M., Dressel, M., 2002. Evidence for spin-charge separation in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors. Nature 418, 614–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curioso, A., Bradford, R., Galbraith, P., 2010. Expert PHP and MySQL®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Kellermann, A.J., de Haan, J., de Vries, F. (Eds.), 2013. Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Adkins, W.A., Davidson, M.G., 2012. Linear Constant Coefficient Differential Equations, in: Davidson, M.G. (Ed.), Ordinary Differential Equations, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 275–329.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. The Video Of Tigers Chasing A Drone Really Isn’t As Cool As You Think [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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Much Biomedical Equipment Status Information Available, Yet Concerns Remain (No. T-AIMD-99-197). 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

Ott, W.H., 2017. An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Zajac, M.K., 2012. Cara Shepley and Genshi Ezawa. New York Times ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag, 2003; Yarger and Wolf, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yarger and Wolf, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lorenz et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gynecologic Oncology Reports
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Oncol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-5789
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