How to format your references using the Journal of Gynecologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Roberts JW. Molecular biology. Molecular basis of transcription pausing. Science. 2014 Jun 13;344(6189):1226–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wuchty S, Uetz P. Protein-protein Interaction Networks of E. coli and S. cerevisiae are similar. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 28;4:7187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fleurquin P, Ramasco JJ, Eguiluz VM. Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan 29;3:1159.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van den Bogaart G, Meyenberg K, Risselada HJ, Amin H, Willig KI, Hubrich BE, et al. Membrane protein sequestering by ionic protein-lipid interactions. Nature. 2011 Oct 23;479(7374):552–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies J. Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

de Valk M, editor. Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. XVII, 342 p. 25 illus., 17 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Iser B, Schmidt G. Bandwidth Extension of Telephony Speech. In: Hänsler E, Schmidt G, editors. Speech and Audio Processing in Adverse Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 135–84. (Signals and Communication Technology).

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 Journal of Gynecologic Oncology.

Blog post

Fang J. Eyeless Yeti Crabs Discovered Living on Antarctic Hydrothermal Vents [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eyeless-yeti-crabs-discovered-living-antarctic-hydrothermal-vents/

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

Government Accountability Office. High Risk Series: Guaranteed Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Dec. Report No.: HR-93-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldstein J. Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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

Gordon M. Blessed Among Women. New York Times. 2012 Nov 11;BR14.

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	Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
Abbreviation	J. Gynecol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2005-0380
ISSN (online)	2005-0399
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oncology