How to format your references using the Gynecologic Oncology Research and Practice citation style

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

1. Chipman A. Swiss on a roll. Nature. 2007;448:525.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Soutoglou E, Misteli T. Activation of the cellular DNA damage response in the absence of DNA lesions. Science. 2008;320:1507–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Teng F-Z, Dauphas N, Helz RT. Iron isotope fractionation during magmatic differentiation in Kilauea Iki lava lake. Science. 2008;320:1620–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schaffitzel C, Oswald M, Berger I, Ishikawa T, Abrahams JP, Koerten HK, et al. Structure of the E. coli signal recognition particle bound to a translating ribosome. Nature. 2006;444:503–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kontush A, Chapman MJ. High-Density Lipoproteins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Hartman A, Kreische D, editors. Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications: First European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2005, Nuremberg, Germany, November 7-10, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rana AQ, Zumo LA, Sim V. Tumours. In: Zumo LA, Sim V, editors. Neuroradiology in Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 39–49.

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 Research and Practice.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. We Have 15 Years To Halt Biodiversity Loss, Can It Be Done? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Savings Available to Government on Certain IBM Automatic Data Processing Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Mar. Report No.: 093029.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Quintero MC. Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2017.

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. Hodara S. Where the Sylvan Settings Enhance the Art. New York Times. 2014 May 18;CT9.

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 Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Oncol. Res. Pract.
ISSN (online)	2053-6844
Scope