How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of 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	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. Conard NJ. A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nature. 2009;459:248–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Alle H, Geiger JRP. Combined analog and action potential coding in hippocampal mossy fibers. Science. 2006;311:1290–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Arlettaz R, Jones G, Racey PA. Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats. Nature. 2001;414:742–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kimoto K, Asaka T, Nagai T, Saito M, Matsui Y, Ishizuka K. Element-selective imaging of atomic columns in a crystal using STEM and EELS. Nature. 2007;450:702–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robinson N, Hall G, Fawcett W. How to Survive in Anaesthesia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Basting D, Marowsky G, editors. Excimer Laser Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sierksma G, Ghosh D. Shortest Paths. In: Ghosh D, editor. Networks in Action: Text and Computer Exercises in Network Optimization. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 17–35.

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 Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. A New Way To Model The Minutes After The Big Bang [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/a-new-way-to-model-the-minutes-after-the-big-bang/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Challenges and Problems in the Evaluation of Government Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Nov. Report No.: 094527.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Conti AI. Dirty hands, virtue ethics, and consequentialism [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Barron J. Its Star Aglow Again, Madison Square Park Is Ready for Memorial Day. New York Times. 2017 May 24;A22.

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	Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
ISSN (print)	2363-8397
ISSN (online)	2363-8400
Scope