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]

Weitz DA. PHYSICS. Packing in the spheres. Science 2004;303:968–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hill RA, Barton RA. Psychology: red enhances human performance in contests. Nature 2005;435:293.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dale VH, Crisafulli CM, Swanson FJ. Ecology. 25 years of ecological change at Mount St. Helens. Science 2005;308:961–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Noguchi T, Nakamura T, Kimura M, Zolensky ME, Tanaka M, Hashimoto T, et al. Incipient space weathering observed on the surface of Itokawa dust particles. Science 2011;333:1121–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Harper C. Analytic Methods in Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Lin CY-Y. National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa. vol. 18. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dockner EJ, Neck R. Time Consistency, Subgame Perfectness, Solution Concepts and Information Patterns in Dynamic Models of Stabilization Policies. In: Neck R, Richter C, Mooslechner P, editors. Quantitative Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Andrew Hughes Hallett, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 51–101.

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]

Andrews R. The Most Swear-Prone US States Are Also The Most Trustworthy. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/swearprone-us-states-also-most-trustworthy/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Critical Infrastructure Protection: “ILOVEYOU” Computer Virus Highlights Need for Improved Alert and Coordination Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zivkovic O. Ternary nanomaterials: Synthesis by alkalide reduction and characterization. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

Hartman S. Keepers of the Spanish Flame. New York Times 2015:MB1.

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

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