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. Avise JC. Evolving genomic metaphors: a new look at the language of DNA. Science. 2001;294:86–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liu CC, Arkin AP. Cell biology. The case for RNA. Science. 2010;330:1185–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Catrysse PB, Liu V, Fan S. Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6635.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen H-T, Padilla WJ, Zide JMO, Gossard AC, Taylor AJ, Averitt RD. Active terahertz metamaterial devices. Nature. 2006;444:597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Minns P, Elliott I. FSM-Based Digital Design Using Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Sijde P van der, Ridder A, Blaauw G, Diensberg C, editors. Teaching Entrepreneurship: Cases for Education and Training. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zrodnikov A, Korobeynikov V, Chebeskov A, Tikhomirov B. MULTI-ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE RESISTANCE TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION. In: Apikyan S, Diamond D, editors. Countering Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 63–84.

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. Fang J. Pandas Don’t Have A Crazy Low Metabolism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pandas-dont-have-a-crazy-low-metabolism/

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 Student Loans: Better Oversight Could Improve Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-256.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Branch J. A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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. Tommasini A, da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM C, Oestreich JR, Allen D. Sex and Death: It Must Be Opera. New York Times. 2017 Sep 8;AR50.

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