How to format your references using the Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports. 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

Katsnelson, A., 2014. Drug development: The modelling challenge. Nature 508, S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, P.A., Hoffman, P.F., 2005. Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature 433, 123–127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunn, B., Kamath, H., Tarascon, J.-M., 2011. Electrical energy storage for the grid: a battery of choices. Science 334, 928–935.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Doshi, R., Chen, B.R., Vibat, C.R.T., Huang, N., Lee, C.-W., Chang, G., 2014. In vitro nanobody discovery for integral membrane protein targets. Sci. Rep. 4, 6760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berg, M.C., 2000. The Fourier-Analytic Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Niemi, H., Toom, A., Kallioniemi, A. (Eds.), 2012. Miracle of Education: The Principles and Practices of Teaching and Learning in Finnish Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Joshi, R.R., 2009. Statistical Mining of Gene and Protein Databanks, in: Fulekar, M.H. (Ed.), Bioinformatics: Applications in Life and Environmental Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 34–43.

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 Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. Mediterranean Diet May Protect Your Brain In Old Age, New Finding Suggests [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mediterranean-diet-may-protect-your-brain-in-old-age-new-finding-suggests/ (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, 2003. Aviation Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs (No. GAO-03-1156R). 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

Shackelford, V., 2014. Mary’s mandala story: Images of chaos in mandala psychology (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Conte, L., 2011. Scouting Report. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Katsnelson, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Allen and Hoffman, 2005; Katsnelson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Allen and Hoffman, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Doshi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gynecologic Oncology Case Reports
ISSN (print)	2211-338X
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