How to format your references using the Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction. 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]

Michael HA. Geochemistry. An arsenic forecast for China. Science 2013;341:852–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kuriyan J, Eisenberg D. The origin of protein interactions and allostery in colocalization. Nature 2007;450:983–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McAlonan K, Cavanaugh J, Wurtz RH. Guarding the gateway to cortex with attention in visual thalamus. Nature 2008;456:391–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Deutsch C, Sarmiento JL, Sigman DM, Gruber N, Dunne JP. Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean. Nature 2007;445:163–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dincer I, Rosen MA, Ahmadi P. Optimization of Energy Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Bondeson A. Computational Electromagnetics. vol. 51. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Borgaonkar R, Redon K, Seifert J-P. Experimental Analysis of the Femtocell Location Verification Techniques. In: Aura T, Järvinen K, Nyberg K, editors. Information Security Technology for Applications: 15th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2010, Espoo, Finland, October 27-29, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 49–54.

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 Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Aging Brains Aren’t Necessarily Declining Brains. IFLScience 2014.

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. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Participants Give Program High Marks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mustico JP. Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2010.

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]

Crow K. Ah, Spring, When Street Fairs Battle Each Other for Permits. New York Times 2003:146.

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 Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
ISSN (print)	2468-7847
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