How to format your references using the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC). 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]

O’Neill LAJ. Biochemistry: succinate strikes. Nature 2014;515:350–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Adesnik H, Scanziani M. Lateral competition for cortical space by layer-specific horizontal circuits. Nature 2010;464:1155–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wu M, Pastor-Pareja JC, Xu T. Interaction between Ras(V12) and scribbled clones induces tumour growth and invasion. Nature 2010;463:545–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Miller MA, Nguyen VQ, Lee MH, et al. A sperm cytoskeletal protein that signals oocyte meiotic maturation and ovulation. Science 2001;291:2144–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cobb AH, Reade JPH. Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Kordon F, Sztipanovits J, editors. Reliable Systems on Unreliable Networked Platforms: 12th Monterey Workshop 2005, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, September 22-24, 2005. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 4322. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aydogan-Duda N. Education, Science and Technology in Developing Countries. In: Aydogan-Duda N, editor. Making It to the Forefront: Nanotechnology—A Developing Country Perspective, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 35–40.

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 Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. How Ethiopian Highlanders Adapted To Their Low Oxygen Conditions. IFLScience 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-ethiopian-highlanders-adapted-their-low-oxygen-conditions/; 2015. 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. Earth Observing System: Broader Involvement of the EOSDIS User Community Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Henderson MM. Coming to Terms: Career Development Experiences of NCAA Division I Female Student-Athletes in Transition. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Dudiyeva F, as Told to. Three Days and Forever. New York Times 2005:662.

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 Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
ISSN (print)	1701-2163
ISSN (online)	2665-9867
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