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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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 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]

Lea DW. Oceans. Not so permanent El Niño. Science 2014;344:52–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rubin JD, Taatjes DJ. Molecular biology: Mediating transcription and RNA export. Nature 2015;526:199–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grinberg I, Cooper VR, Rappe AM. Relationship between local structure and phase transitions of a disordered solid solution. Nature 2002;419:909–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huang Y, Duan X, Cui Y, Lauhon LJ, Kim KH, Lieber CM. Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks. Science 2001;294:1313–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davison M. Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Mielke A, editor. Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Camacho-Tapia N, Beltrán-Fernández JA, Gonzalez-Rebattú-y González M, Hernández-Gómez LH, Moreno-Garibaldi P, Urriolagoitia-Calderón G, et al. Numerical Study in Biomodels of Maxillofacial Prosthesis (Cancer and Osteonecrosis Cases). In: Öchsner A, Altenbach H, editors. Design and Computation of Modern Engineering Materials, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 59–72.

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 European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. The Global Impact Of Air Conditioning: Big And Getting Bigger. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-global-impact-of-air-conditioning-big-and-getting-bigger/ (accessed October 30, 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. Inland Harbors: The Corps of Engineers Should Assess Existing Capabilities to Better Inform Dredging Decisions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Vas LT. Orbis pictus: Intermedialität zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei und literarischer Stadterfahrung dargestellt anhand der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann und Wilhelm Raabe. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 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]

Gardiner K. Sing, Memory. New York Times 2016:BR10.

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	European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0301-2115
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine