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]

Hutchinson J. Evolutionary developmental biology: Dynasty of the plastic fish. Nature 2014;513:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pollard PJ, Ratcliffe PJ. Cancer. Puzzling patterns of predisposition. Science 2009;324:192–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature 2004;430:1044–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pal-Bhadra M, Leibovitch BA, Gandhi SG, Chikka MR, Rao M, Bhadra U, et al. Heterochromatic silencing and HP1 localization in Drosophila are dependent on the RNAi machinery. Science 2004;303:669–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Retherford RD, Choe MK. Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1993.

An edited book

[1]

Marcaide J-M, Weiler KW, editors. Cosmic Explosions: On the 10th Anniversary of SN1993J (IAU Colloquium 192). vol. 99. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Waterworth J, Hoshi K. Designing with Blends. In: Hoshi K, editor. Human-Experiential Design of Presence in Everyday Blended Reality: Living in the Here and Now, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 47–59.

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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Andrew D. No, Enjoying A Gin And Tonic Doesn’t Mean You’re A Psychopath. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/no-enjoying-a-gin-and-tonic-doesnt-mean-youre-a-psychopath/ (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. Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Blankenship K. An Analysis of Illinois Public School Funding a Descriptive Comparison of Equity: 2005 v. 2015. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois 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]

Walsh MW. Robert A. Pritzker, 85; Led Family Business. New York Times 2011:B8.

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