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. Myers EG. Fundamental constants: The teamwork of precision. Nature. 2014;506:440–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hirsh AE, Fraser HB. Protein dispensability and rate of evolution. Nature. 2001;411:1046–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Brechbühl J, Klaey M, Broillet M-C. Grueneberg ganglion cells mediate alarm pheromone detection in mice. Science. 2008;321:1092–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lev-Yadun S, Ne’eman G, Abbo S, Flaishman MA. Comment on “Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley.” Science. 2006;314:1683; author reply 1683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bilisoly R. Practical Text Mining with Perl. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Clarkson J, Langdon P, Robinson P, editors. Designing Accessible Technology. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wang Y, Jung T-P. Improving Brain–Computer Interfaces Using Independent Component Analysis. In: Allison BZ, Dunne S, Leeb R, Del R. Millán J, Nijholt A, editors. Towards Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces: Bridging the Gap from Research to Real-World Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 67–83.

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. Whatever Our Emotions Tell Us, Not All Whaling Is The Same. 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. Federal Highway Programs: Status of Federal Highway Programs in the Absence of Reauthorization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Nov. Report No.: T-RCED-98-38.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Altebarmakian T. Salt of the Skin [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Blinder A. Dead Children, a Crumpled Bus and a Dazed City. New York Times. 2016 Nov 22;A12.

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