How to format your references using the Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy. 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

Kristan WB. Neuroscience. A push-me pull-you neural design. Science. 2007;315(5810):339-340.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coulson T, Clegg S. Population biology: fur seals signal their own decline. Nature. 2014;511(7510):414-415.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deuss A, Irving JCE, Woodhouse JH. Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations. Science. 2010;328(5981):1018-1020.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun P, Zheng F, Wang K, Zhong M, Wu D, Zhu H. Electro- and magneto-modulated ion transport through graphene oxide membranes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6798.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coles A, Hawkins DG. MIDAS Technical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Yousif M, Schubert L, eds. Cloud Computing: Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 112. Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Herrington J. Flex and AIR: Taking Applications to the Desktop. In: Herrington J, Elrom E, Mostafa J, eds. AdvancED Flex 3. Apress; 2008:181-206.

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 Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water. IFLScience. November 18, 2014.

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. Information Technology: Better Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slayton KA. A Psychoeducational Support Group for Families of Youth Experiencing Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Boucher B. Between Fable and Fact. New York Times. September 8, 2017:BR9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
Abbreviation	Gynecol. Minim. Invasive Ther.
ISSN (print)	2213-3070
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology