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]

Thomas CD. The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity. Nature 2013;502:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Deng K, Siliciano RF. HIV: Early treatment may not be early enough. Nature 2014;512:35–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kuzuyama T, Noel JP, Richard SB. Structural basis for the promiscuous biosynthetic prenylation of aromatic natural products. Nature 2005;435:983–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hierro A, Sun J, Rusnak AS, Kim J, Prag G, Emr SD, et al. Structure of the ESCRT-II endosomal trafficking complex. Nature 2004;431:221–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Quéguiner B. The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Herrero Á, Corchado E, editors. Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems: 4th International Conference, CISIS 2011, Held at IWANN 2011, Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6694. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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Ray S, Özdemir V. Angel Philanthropy and Crowdfunding to Accelerate Cancer Research in Developing World. In: Srivastava S, editor. Biomarker Discovery in the Developing World: Dissecting the Pipeline for Meeting the Challenges, New Delhi: Springer India; 2016, p. 65–71.

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 D. IVF Has Little Effect On Health Of The Child. IFLScience 2017.

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. Student Loans: Direct Loans Could Save Billions in First 5 Years With Proper Implementation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Westgate M. La Boutique Fantasque: A full score edition for wind band. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2009.

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

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B Y Robert Kelly;, who teaches at Bard College, is a Poet Whose, Music ’ ’not This Island, ’ ’ Will be Published. A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SILENCE. New York Times 1986:721.

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