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]

DeWeerdt S. Vaccines: The take-home lesson. Nature 2012;484:S24-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grodzinsky Y, Nelken I. Neuroscience. The neural code that makes us human. Science 2014;343:978–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

White N, Thompson M, Barwise T. Understanding the thermal evolution of deep-water continental margins. Nature 2003;426:334–43.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zuend SJ, Coughlin MP, Lalonde MP, Jacobsen EN. Scaleable catalytic asymmetric Strecker syntheses of unnatural alpha-amino acids. Nature 2009;461:968–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bragg SM. Accounting Best Practices. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Stefanović D. Structured Analog CMOS Design. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Esche M, Karaman M, Sikora T. Semi-Automatic Object Tracking in Video Sequences by Extension of the MRSST Algorithm. In: Adami N, Cavallaro A, Leonardi R, Migliorati P, editors. Analysis, Retrieval and Delivery of Multimedia Content, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 57–70.

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

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Evans K. Archaeologists Announce Discovery Of A 3,700 Year-Old Pyramid In Egypt. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/3700yearold-pyramid-discovered-near-dahshur-royal-necropolis-in-egypt/ (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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Accountability for Taxpayer Relief Act Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Risley L. Exploring Congruency between John A. Henschke’s Practice and Scholarship. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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]

Saslow L. Moving From Team Sport to Lifelong Fitness. New York Times 2009:LI5.

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