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

Ando K. Materials science. Seeking room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors. Science. 2006 Jun 30;312(5782):1883–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soldner F, Jaenisch R. Medicine. iPSC disease modeling. Science. 2012 Nov 30;338(6111):1155–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levy ED, Landry CR, Michnick SW. Cell signaling. Signaling through cooperation. Science. 2010 May 21;328(5981):983–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hinkov V, Haug D, Fauqué B, Bourges P, Sidis Y, Ivanov A, et al. Electronic liquid crystal state in the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.45. Science. 2008 Feb 1;319(5863):597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kagan E, Ben-Gal I. Probabilistic Search for Tracking Targets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Pino RE, Kott A, Shevenell M, editors. Cybersecurity Systems for Human Cognition Augmentation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. XVI, 209 p. 113 illus. (Advances in Information Security; vol. 61).

A chapter in an edited book

Fernandez-Breis JT, Iannone L, Palmisano I, Rector AL, Stevens R. Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language. In: Cimiano P, Pinto HS, editors. Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses: 17th International Conference, EKAW 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 59–73. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Davis J. Rising Atmospheric CO2 Has Lead To A Global “Greening” Effect [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-atmospheric-co2-has-lead-greening-effect/

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. GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Jun. Report No.: 122633.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Witt SR. A Study of the Relationship of Online Course Factors and Passing or Failing an Online Course [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella 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

Woolfe Z, Tommasini A, Allen D, Oestreich JR. Beautiful Music to Their Ears. New York Times. 2016 Dec 15;C4.

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