How to format your references using the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 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

[1]

Maxmen A. Fighting the monster. Nature 2010;466:S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lansbury PT, Lashuel HA. A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic. Nature 2006;443:774–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Back JM, McCue SW, Moroney TJ. Including nonequilibrium interface kinetics in a continuum model for melting nanoscaled particles. Sci Rep 2014;4:7066.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Subarya C, Chlieh M, Prawirodirdjo L, Avouac J-P, Bock Y, Sieh K, et al. Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Nature 2006;440:46–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mackevičius V. Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Grioli G, Truesdell C, editors. Non-linear Continuum Theories. vol. 36. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lai J, Deng RH, Ma C, Sakurai K, Weng J. CCA-Secure Keyed-Fully Homomorphic Encryption. In: Cheng C-M, Chung K-M, Persiano G, Yang B-Y, editors. Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2016: 19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 70–98.

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 International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Spectacular Solar Eruption Caught On Camera. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spectacular-solar-eruption-caught-camera/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Partnerships Needed to Address Risk of Major Disruptions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Finley S. How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Kinsley M. Paid Leave Counts as Progress. New York Times 2017:SR3.

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	International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Gynaecol. Obstet.
ISSN (print)	0020-7292
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology