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]

Barry CE. Tuberculosis: Drug discovery goes au naturel. Nature 2014;506:436–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

DeKosky ST, Marek K. Looking backward to move forward: early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. Science 2003;302:830–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kokoeva MV, Yin H, Flier JS. Neurogenesis in the hypothalamus of adult mice: potential role in energy balance. Science 2005;310:679–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Niestemski FC, Kunwar S, Zhou S, Li S, Ding H, Wang Z, et al. A distinct bosonic mode in an electron-doped high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature 2007;450:1058–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Padmanabhan TR, Bala Tripura Sundari B. Design Through Verilog HDL. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Zeimpekis V, Kaimakamis G, Daras NJ, editors. Military Logistics: Research Advances and Future Trends. vol. 56. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Trucchia F, Romei J. Principles and Rules. In: Romei J, Lowman M, Andres C, Anglin S, Beckner M, Buckingham E, et al., editors. Pro PHP Refactoring, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010, p. 47–55.

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]

Fang J. What’s Happening To The Flowers At Fukushima? IFLScience 2015.

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. NASA Contract Payments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Medlej M. Assessing the Probability of Prototyping Success in Systems Acquisitions (APOPS). Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

[1]

Brantley B. The Caged Beast Awakens. New York Times 2017: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 Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
ISSN (print)	2468-7847
Scope