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. Smaglik P. In Franklin’s footsteps. Nature. 2003;422:643.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Piperno DR, Sues H-D. Paleontology. Dinosaurs dined on grass. Science. 2005;310:1126–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhao M, Kong L, Qu H. A systems biology approach to identify intelligence quotient score-related genomic regions, and pathways relevant to potential therapeutic treatments. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4176.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cole BE, Williams JB, King BT, Sherwin MS, Stanley CR. Coherent manipulation of semiconductor quantum bits with terahertz radiation. Nature. 2001;410:60–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hites RA, Raff JD. Elements of Environmental Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Latouche G, Ramaswami V, Sethuraman J, Sigman K, Squillante MS, Yao DD, editors. Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dantas YG, Lemos MOO, Fonseca IE, Nigam V. Formal Specification and Verification of a Selective Defense for TDoS Attacks. In: Lucanu D, editor. Rewriting Logic and Its Applications: 11th International Workshop, WRLA 2016, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 82–97.

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. Fang J. Small Dog-Sized Dinosaur Discovered in Venezuela. IFLScience. 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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Noteworthy Improvements in Readiness But Vulnerabilities Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Nov. Report No.: T-AIMD-00-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Greenfield Pace JA. The influence of accountability and commitment on team performance of airline flight crews [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2016.

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. Cooper M. A Red State’s Cultural Blues. New York Times. 2017 Apr 25;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 Ovarian Research
Abbreviation	J. Ovarian Res.
ISSN (online)	1757-2215
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oncology