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

Smaglik P. Small world, big opportunities. Nature. 2002 Aug 15;418(6899):4–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makino S, Suzuki M. Bacterial genomic reorganization upon DNA replication. Science. 2001 May 4;292(5518):803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sidhu ABS, Verdier-Pinard D, Fidock DA. Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites conferred by pfcrt mutations. Science. 2002 Oct 4;298(5591):210–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yuan Z, Becker EBE, Merlo P, Yamada T, DiBacco S, Konishi Y, et al. Activation of FOXO1 by Cdk1 in cycling cells and postmitotic neurons. Science. 2008 Mar 21;319(5870):1665–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi MH. Settleability Problems and Loss of Solids in the Activated Sludge Process. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

Sheppard B. School District Leadership Matters. Brown J, Dibbon D, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. X, 144 p. (Studies In Educational Leadership; vol. 8).

A chapter in an edited book

Motomura Y, Kurata T, Yamamoto Y. Community-Based Participatory Service Engineering: Case Studies and Technologies. In: Kwan SK, Spohrer JC, Sawatani Y, editors. Global Perspectives on Service Science: Japan. New York, NY: Springer; 2016. p. 63–78. (Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy).

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

Andrew E. How Long Does It Take To Get An Autism Diagnosis? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-long-does-it-take-get-autism-diagnosis/

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. Credit Reporting Literacy Survey Data, an E-supplement to GAO-05-223. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Mar. Report No.: GAO-05-411SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Britt CA. Dying in America: A historical analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Is Referee In Delaware River Fight. New York Times. 2007 Nov 28;B2.

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

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