How to format your references using the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology (JMIG). 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

Service Robert F. American Chemical Society meeting. Snapshots from the meeting. Science. 2006;314(5796):47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruprecht Philipp, Plank Terry. Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle. Nature. 2013;500(7460):68–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

LaRiviere F. J., Wolfson A. D., Uhlenbeck O. C. Uniform binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to elongation factor Tu by thermodynamic compensation. Science. 2001;294(5540):165–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yamasaki Akinori, Hara Taichi, Maejima Ikuko, Sato Miyuki, Sato Katsuya, Sato Ken. Rer1p regulates the ER retention of immature rhodopsin and modulates its intracellular trafficking. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy Tamer. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2012.

An edited book

Luk¿ Antonín. Quantum Aspects of Light Propagation. Boston, MA: Springer US. 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Lieb K. P., Zhang K., Müller G. A., Gupta R., Schaaf P. Heavy Ion Irradiated Ferromagnetic Films: The Cases of Cobalt and Iron. In: Somayajulu D. R. S., Lieb K-P, editors. IWNMS 2004: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Nanomaterials, Magnetic Ions and Magnetic Semiconductors Studied Mostly by Hyperfine Interactions (IWNMS 2004) held in Baroda, India, 10–14 February 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2005. p. 39–56.

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 Minimally Invasive Gynecology.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. Stephen Hawking Claims Aggression Will Be Downfall of Human Race. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/stephen-hawking-claims-aggression-will-be-downfall-human-race/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Aircraft Development: The Advanced Tactical Fighter’s Costs, Schedule, and Performance Goals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pak Charles H. A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2015.

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

Pipher Mary. Nebraska’s Lonely Progressives. New York Times. 2014:A17.

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	Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Abbreviation	J. Minim. Invasive Gynecol.
ISSN (print)	1553-4650
ISSN (online)	1553-4669
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology