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

Pertsev NA. Origin of easy magnetization switching in magnetic tunnel junctions with voltage-controlled interfacial anisotropy. Sci Rep. 2013 Sep 25;3:2757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sussman MR, Phillips GN Jr. Plant science. How plant cells go to sleep for a long, long time. Science. 2009 Dec 4;326(5958):1356–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newsome TP, Scaplehorn N, Way M. SRC mediates a switch from microtubule- to actin-based motility of vaccinia virus. Science. 2004 Oct 1;306(5693):124–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chipuk JE, Kuwana T, Bouchier-Hayes L, Droin NM, Newmeyer DD, Schuler M, et al. Direct activation of Bax by p53 mediates mitochondrial membrane permeabilization and apoptosis. Science. 2004 Feb 13;303(5660):1010–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen C. Business Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Debled-Rennesson I, Domenjoud E, Kerautret B, Even P, editors. Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 16th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2011, Nancy, France, April 6-8, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XIV, 526 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6607).

A chapter in an edited book

Steele A. Ontological Vulnerability Assessment. In: Hartmann S, Zhou X, Kirchberg M, editors. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops: WISE 2008 International Workshops, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1-4, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 24–35. (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

Carpineti A. AI Learns Nobel-Winning Experiment In An Hour ... And Then Improves It [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ai-learns-nobel-winning-experiment-hour-and-then-improves-it/

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. Status of Budget Authority Involved in Three Rescissions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Oct. Report No.: OGC-77-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Runyan TE. A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Cooper M. Upheaval At Bach Festival. New York Times. 2017 Sep 18;C1.

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