How to format your references using the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology (JMIG). 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

Jarillo-Herrero Pablo. Applied physics. Pulling apart molecular magnetism. Science. 2010;328(5984):1362–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skubi Kazimer L., Yoon Tehshik P. Organic chemistry: Shape control in reactions with light. Nature. 2014;515(7525):45–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ninomiya Hiromasa, Elinson Richard P., Winklbauer Rudolf. Antero-posterior tissue polarity links mesoderm convergent extension to axial patterning. Nature. 2004;430(6997):364–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samson Rachel Y., Obita Takayuki, Freund Stefan M., Williams Roger L., Bell Stephen D. A role for the ESCRT system in cell division in archaea. Science. 2008;322(5908):1710–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner David J. The ETF Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc. 2016.

An edited book

Paksoy Halime Ö., editor. Thermal Energy Storage for Sustainable Energy Consumption: Fundamentals, Case Studies and Design. vol. 234. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Franke Andreas. Three-dimensional stress echocardiography. In: Buck Thomas, Franke Andreas, Monaghan Mark J., editors. Three-dimensional Echocardiography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2011. p. 73–81.

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 Minimally Invasive Gynecology.

Blog post

Luntz Stephen. Amazing 3D Fractals Inspired By Faberge Eggs. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/amazing-3d-fractals-inspired-faberge-eggs/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 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

Government Accountability Office. Highway Infrastructure: Stakeholders’ Views on Time to Conduct Environmental Reviews of Highway Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dammann Nancy M. Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2009.

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

Choi Mary H. K. Terror in the Streets. New York Times. 2013:MM50.

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 Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Abbreviation	J. Minim. Invasive Gynecol.
ISSN (print)	1553-4650
ISSN (online)	1553-4669
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology