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

Brumfiel, G., 2002. Cosmology: it all adds up. Nature 420, 731–732.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGurk, L., Bonini, N.M., 2011. Cell biology. Yeast informs Alzheimer’s disease. Science 334, 1212–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffmann, K.F., Brindley, P.J., Berriman, M., 2014. Medicine. Halting harmful helminths. Science 346, 168–169.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saitoh, E., Miyajima, H., Yamaoka, T., Tatara, G., 2004. Current-induced resonance and mass determination of a single magnetic domain wall. Nature 432, 203–206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitajima, M., 2016. Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pokorski, M. (Ed.), 2016. Respirology, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bettini, L., Damiani, F., De Luca, M., Geilmann, K., Schäfer, J., 2010. A Calculus for Boxes and Traits in a Java-Like Setting, in: Clarke, D., Agha, G. (Eds.), Coordination Models and Languages: 12th International Conference, COORDINATION 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 46–60.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Two Steps Forward for Quantum Computing [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/two-steps-forward-quantum-computing/ (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. National Security: Papers Prepared for GAO Conference on Worldwide Threats (No. NSIAD-92-104S). 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

Liza, J.S., 2009. Mentors’ perceptions of bullying in middle and high school settings (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

Crow, K., 2000. That Distinctive New-Park Odor Turns Out to Be Leaking Sewage. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2002; McGurk and Bonini, 2011).

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

Two authors: (McGurk and Bonini, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Saitoh et al., 2004)

About the journal

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