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. Yellen G. The voltage-gated potassium channels and their relatives. Nature. 2002;419:35–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wheeler T, von Braun J. Climate change impacts on global food security. Science. 2013;341:508–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Buehler MJ, Abraham FF, Gao H. Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature. 2003;426:141–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wienholds E, Schulte-Merker S, Walderich B, Plasterk RHA. Target-selected inactivation of the zebrafish rag1 gene. Science. 2002;297:99–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Soustelle M. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

1. Munteanu L. Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics. Donescu S, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Shahbazian S. Extending the Topological Analysis and Seeking the Real-Space Subsystems in Non-Coulombic Systems with Homogeneous Potential Energy Functions. In: Chauvin R, Lepetit C, Silvi B, Alikhani E, editors. Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 89–100.

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. Dark Energy Survey Reveals 8 Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting The Milky Way [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-energy-survey-shows-our-sky-more-crowded-we-thought/

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. ADP Modernization: Army Plans To Improve Budget Disclosure for Its Standard Depot System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 May. Report No.: IMTEC-88-30.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Manandhar R. Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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. Barron J. Mystery of the Hamilton Painting at City Hall: Lost, Stolen or Never There? New York Times. 2017 Apr 12;A19.

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
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