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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Gynecologic Surgery (GYN). 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Spurgeon D. Canada plans reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. Nature 2000;407(6806):824.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Davidson AL, Chen J. Structural biology. Flipping lipids: is the third time the charm? Science 2005;308(5724):963–965.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Gustafson JL, Lim D, Miller SJ. Dynamic kinetic resolution of biaryl atropisomers via peptide-catalyzed asymmetric bromination. Science 2010;328(5983):1251–1255.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Hansen SG, Powers CJ, Richards R, et al. Evasion of CD8+ T cells is critical for superinfection by cytomegalovirus. Science 2010;328(5974):102–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Bass F. Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2013.
An edited book
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Zhou Q. Network Robustness under Large-Scale Attacks. (Gao L, Liu R, Cui S. eds). SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer: New York, NY; 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
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de Vries MJ, Meijers AWM. Beliefs, Acceptances and Technological Knowledge. In: Norms in Technology. (Vries MJ de, Hansson SO, Meijers AWM. eds). Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2013; pp. 55–65.

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 Journal of Gynecologic Surgery.

Blog post
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Andrew E. Magic Mushrooms Could Help Smokers Kick The Habit. IFLScience; 2014. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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
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Government Accountability Office. Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Taaz Z. Boiler Automation and Monitoring of Temperature and Steam Flow Using Simulink. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2017.

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
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Williams J. New Ways to Woo Jaded Consumers. New York Times 2017;C5.

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 titleJournal of Gynecologic Surgery
ISSN (print)1042-4067
ISSN (online)1557-7724
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