How to format your references using the The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Schiermeier Q. Westernizing Eastern-bloc science. Nature. 2008;453:558–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nakahara K, Miyashita Y. Neuroscience. Understanding intentions: through the looking glass. Science. 2005;308:644–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nowak MA, Plotkin JB, Jansen VA. The evolution of syntactic communication. Nature. 2000;404:495–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Darquié B, Jones MPA, Dingjan J, Beugnon J, Bergamini S, Sortais Y, et al. Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom. Science. 2005;309:454–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anjum B, Perros H. Bandwidth Allocation for Video Under Quality of Service Constraints. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Muthu SS, editor. Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing: Eco-friendly Raw Materials, Technologies, and Processing Methods. Singapore: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Knauer C, Spillner A. A Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for the Minimum Weight Triangulation Problem Based on Small Graph Separators. In: Fomin FV, editor. Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 32nd International Workshop, WG 2006, Bergen, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 49–57.

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 The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Is Iceland’s Dangerous Hekla Volcano About To Explode? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/is-icelands-dangerous-hekla-volcano-about-to-explode/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Transportation Infrastructure: Major Program Revisions Present Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: T-RCED-92-93.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sefrit J. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2008.

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. Greenhouse L. Justice Dept. Admits Error In Failure To Brief Court. New York Times. 2008 Jul 3;A15.

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	The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India
Abbreviation	J. Obstet. Gynaecol. India
ISSN (print)	0971-9202
ISSN (online)	0975-6434
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology