How to format your references using the Journal of Ovarian Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ovarian Research. 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

1. Bohannon J. The Gonzo Scientist. Results from the science dance match-up challenge. Science. 2009;324:1262.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stamm LM, Goldberg MB. Microbiology. Establishing the secretion hierarchy. Science. 2011;331:1147–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Prokopenko AA, Karabanov EB, Williams DF. Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal. Nature. 2002;415:976.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kawasaki Y, Lee J, Matsuzawa A, Kohda T, Kaneko-Ishino T, Ishino F. Active DNA demethylation is required for complete imprint erasure in primordial germ cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH, Rahman MS. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Mazumder SK, editor. Wireless Networking Based Control. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Landriani L, Pozzoli M. The Accounting Measurement of Cultural Asset Heritage. In: Pozzoli M, editor. Management and Valuation of Heritage Assets: A Comparative Analysis Between Italy and USA. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 99–112.

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 Ovarian Research.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Cats And Dogs Remember Things In The Same Way [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-dogs-remember-things-same-way/

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. Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jun. Report No.: PEMD-93-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Alexandre KM. Identifying mechanisms regulating Wnt signaling during postembryonic development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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

1. Bernstein N. 22 Unclaimed Bodies Endured a Grim Detour Before Burial. New York Times. 2016 Oct 27;A1.

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 Ovarian Research
Abbreviation	J. Ovarian Res.
ISSN (online)	1757-2215
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oncology