How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology. 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. Kolber A. Neuroethics: Give memory-altering drugs a chance. Nature. 2011;476:275–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Foster GL, Vance D. Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature. 2006;444:918–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Park I-U, Peacey MW, Munafò MR. Modelling the effects of subjective and objective decision making in scientific peer review. Nature. 2014;506:93–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Goyon J, Colin A, Ovarlez G, Ajdari A, Bocquet L. Spatial cooperativity in soft glassy flows. Nature. 2008;454:84–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Harrison A. The Life of D. H. Lawrence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Jullien V, editor. Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fox D. Canada: Community, Reintegration, Restoration and Aboriginal Responses. In: Arnull E, Fox D, editors. Cultural Perspectives on Youth Justice: Connecting Theory, Policy and International Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 111–30.

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 Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Ancient Cave Art Was Not Made By Humans [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-cave-art-may-not-be-man-made-after-all/

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. Public Transit: Observations on Recent Changes to the Capital Investment Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Apr. Report No.: GAO-16-495.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fischer D. Psychology and people living with hiv/aids: A critical review of the literature [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Yoo J. Forget Watergate. Think Iran-Contra. New York Times. 2017 May 18;A27.

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	Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
ISSN (print)	2363-8397
ISSN (online)	2363-8400
Scope