How to format your references using the Woman - Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Woman - Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics. 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

Kerr, R.A., 2000. PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn Wins Satellite Title With New Moons. Science 290, 689a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vafai, S.B., Mootha, V.K., 2012. Mitochondrial disorders as windows into an ancient organelle. Nature 491, 374–383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klaholz, B.P., Myasnikov, A.G., Van Heel, M., 2004. Visualization of release factor 3 on the ribosome during termination of protein synthesis. Nature 427, 862–865.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boto, E., Holmes, N., Leggett, J., Roberts, G., Shah, V., Meyer, S.S., Muñoz, L.D., Mullinger, K.J., Tierney, T.M., Bestmann, S., Barnes, G.R., Bowtell, R., Brookes, M.J., 2018. Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature 555, 657–661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémond, Y., Ahzi, S., Baniassadi, M., Garmestani, H., 2016. Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vries, M.J. de, Gumaelius, L., Skogh, I.-B. (Eds.), 2016. Pre-university Engineering Education, International Technology Education Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Droste-Franke, B., Carrier, M., Kaiser, M., Schreurs, M., Weber, C., Ziesemer, T., 2015. Characterisation of Recent Energy System Analyses, in: Carrier, M., Kaiser, M., Schreurs, M., Weber, C., Ziesemer, T. (Eds.), Improving Energy Decisions: Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System, Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–140.

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 Woman - Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Parasite Infects Fish Eyes And Makes Them More Likely To Be Eaten By Birds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasite-infects-fish-eyes-and-makes-them-more-likely-to-be-eaten-by-birds/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1999. Transportation Safety: Information Concerning Why a 1980 Aircraft Report Was Not Provided Earlier to the National Transportation Safety Board (No. OSI-00-2R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Abraham, S.R., 2015. Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Foley, J., Hay, G., 2010. New Potential for A.I.G. Deals. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr, 2000; Vafai and Mootha, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Vafai and Mootha, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Boto et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Woman - Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics
ISSN (print)	2213-560X
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