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 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. Retallack GJ. A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles. Nature. 2001;411:287–90.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Alabugin I, Mohamed RK. Chemistry. A CO₂ cloak for the cyanide dagger. Science. 2014;344:45–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ramer MS, Priestley JV, McMahon SB. Functional regeneration of sensory axons into the adult spinal cord. Nature. 2000;403:312–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lerosey G, de Rosny J, Tourin A, Fink M. Focusing beyond the diffraction limit with far-field time reversal. Science. 2007;315:1120–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bragg SM. Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Ciliberto C. I numeri nel cuore. Saleri F, Strickland E, editors. Milano: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Brake L, Turner MW. Rebranding the News of the World: 1891 and After. In: Brake L, Kaul C, Turner MW, editors. The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011: Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 43–62.

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. Andrew D. Only 25 Hainan Gibbons Remain – What Next for the World’s Rarest Primate? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-25-hainan-gibbons-remain-what-next-for-the-worlds-rarest-primate/

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. Deaf Education: Improved Oversight Needed for National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Dec. Report No.: HRD-94-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Weber C. Exercise for older adults with dementia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits by Shareholders. New York Times. 2008 Jan 16;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	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