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. Smaglik P. Job insecurity. Nature. 2002;419:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. VandeBerg JL, Zola SM. A unique biomedical resource at risk. Nature. 2005;437:30–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cohen J, Rau A, Brüning K. Climate change. Bridging the Montreal-Kyoto gap. Science. 2009;326:940–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakazato M, Murakami N, Date Y, Kojima M, Matsuo H, Kangawa K, et al. A role for ghrelin in the central regulation of feeding. Nature. 2001;409:194–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kuehni RG. Color. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Mattei P, editor. Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Procházka K. Historical Perspective of Advances in Fluorescence Research on Polymer Systems. In: Procházka K, editor. Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 151–202.

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. Fang J. Three-Inch Leech Lived Up Backpacker’s Nose For A Month [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/leech-lived-backpackers-nose-month/

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. Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center: Clarifying Rationale for the Research and Development Funding Decisions Would Increase Accountability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Mar. Report No.: GAO-09-339R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Curti CL. Talking About Science Interests: The Importance of Feedback Appraisals When Students Talk About Their Interests in STEM [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. St. John Kelly E. Ghosts Of Montero, By the Sea. New York Times. 1995 Jan 22;134.

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