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

Crow, J.F., 2003. Development. There’s something curious about paternal-age effects. Science 301, 606–607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neumann, G.A., Mazarico, E., 2009. Planetary science. Seeing the missing half. Science 323, 885–887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds, A.M., Leprêtre, L., Bohan, D.A., 2013. Movement patterns of Tenebrio beetles demonstrate empirically that correlated-random-walks have similitude with a Lévy walk. Sci. Rep. 3, 3158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, R., Zhang, P., Zhou, Y., Gao, H., Li, F., 2014. Super sub-wavelength patterns in photon coincidence detection. Sci. Rep. 4, 4068.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tattar, P.N., Ramaiah, S., Manjunath, B.G., 2016. A Course in Statistics With R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Akiyama, J., 2015. Treks into Intuitive Geometry: The World of Polygons and Polyhedra. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp, R., Palmer, N., Kielmann, T., Bal, H., 2012. Energy Efficient Information Monitoring Applications on Smartphones through Communication Offloading, in: Zhang, J.Y., Wilkiewicz, J., Nahapetian, A. (Eds.), Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 60–79.

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

Taub, B., 2015. China’s Air Pollution Has Reached Doomsday Levels [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-s-air-pollution-reaches-50-times-safe-limit/ (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, 1989. Job Training Partnership Act: Services and Outcomes for Participants With Differing Needs (No. HRD-89-52). 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

Olch, R., 2010. Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2004. Russian Cancels Pardon Request In Chechen Case. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crow, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Crow, 2003; Neumann and Mazarico, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Neumann and Mazarico, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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