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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 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

Pan H. Metal dichalcogenides monolayers: novel catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen production. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5348.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broza M, Halpern M. Pathogen reservoirs. Chironomid egg masses and Vibrio cholerae. Nature 2001; 412: 40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Popovych OV, Yanchuk S, Tass PA. Self-organized noise resistance of oscillatory neural networks with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2926.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Keren K, Berman RS, Buchstab E, Sivan U, Braun E. DNA-templated carbon nanotube field-effect transistor. Science 2003; 302: 1380–1382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pavlović T, Alvarez I, Blanco-Cano R, Grisales A, Osorio A, Sánchez A. 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Nedjah N, Abraham A, Mourelle L de M (eds). Computational Intelligence in Information Assurance and Security. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Thomas J-B, Hardeberg JY, Trémeau A. Cross-Media Color Reproduction and Display Characterization. In: Fernandez-Maloigne C, editor. Advanced Color Image Processing and Analysis. New York, NY: Springer, 2013: 81–118.

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 World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Is Venus Still Erupting? IFLScience. 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-still-erupting/

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Ensure Better Coordination When Approving Air Traffic Control Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mcfarlane N. Information power efficiency tradeoffs in mixed signal CMOS circuits. 2010.

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

Lyman R. Polish Parliament Acts to Upend Nation’s Courts. New York Times. 2017; : A1.

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	World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
ISSN (online)	2218-6220
Scope