How to format your references using the Gynecologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecologic Oncology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

T. Lingham-Soliar, Comment on “A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales,” Science 346 (2014) 434.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Guimerà, L.A. Nunes Amaral, Functional cartography of complex metabolic networks, Nature 433 (2005) 895–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.P. Sachs, R.F. Anderson, S.J. Lehman, Glacial surface temperatures of the southeast Atlantic Ocean, Science 293 (2001) 2077–2079.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.C. Tzedakis, K.H. Roucoux, L. de Abreu, N.J. Shackleton, The duration of forest stages in southern Europe and interglacial climate variability, Science 306 (2004) 2231–2235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.R. Callahan, G.S. Stetz, L.M. Brooks, Project Management Accounting, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Hakansson, R. Hartung, eds., Agent and Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Systems - Digital Economy and E-Commerce, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Nagy, Interactive, Mobile, Distributed Pattern Recognition, in: F. Roli, S. Vitulano (Eds.), Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 37–49.

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.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Chandra X-ray Observatory Turns 15!, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/chandra-x-ray-observatory-turns-15/ (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, Request for Comments on Proposed Amendment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.M. Brandom, Spiritual and emotional needs of young adults who are members of mainstream Protestant churches, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

M.D. Levine, M. Brosnahan, The Homelessness Cure, New York Times (2015) A23.

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	Gynecologic Oncology
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	0090-8258
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Oncology