How to format your references using the Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Field CB. Global change. Sharing the garden. Science. 2001;294(5551):2490-2491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Swetter SM, Geller AC. Perspective: catch melanoma early. Nature. 2014;515(7527):S117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Semenov V, Dyadechkin S, Punsly B. Simulations of jets driven by black hole rotation. Science. 2004;305(5686):978-980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Freeman C, Evans CD, Monteith DT, Reynolds B, Fenner N. Export of organic carbon from peat soils. Nature. 2001;412(6849):785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams AE. Immunology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Rudolph KL, ed. Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

von Dörnberg A. The global phenomenon of “low cost” carrier growth. In: Conrady R, Buck M, eds. Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Springer; 2007:53-60.

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 Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Nanoparticles Deliver Three Cancer Drugs at Once. IFLScience. Published April 15, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nanoparticles-deliver-three-cancer-drugs-once/

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. Troops-To-Teachers: Program Brings More Men and Minorities to the Teaching Workforce, but Education Could Improve Management to Enhance Results. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belletti A. Trumpet Practice: Habits and Goals. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kishkovsky S. Bolshoi Official Raises Attack Questions. New York Times. March 12, 2013:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Minim. Invasive Ther.
ISSN (print)	2213-3070
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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