How to format your references using the Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine. 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

Kaessmann H. Genetics. More than just a copy. Science 2009; 325: 958–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf F, Kirchhoff F. Neuroscience. Imaging astrocyte activity. Science 2008; 320: 1597–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plante OJ, Palmacci ER, Seeberger PH. Automated solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides. Science 2001; 291: 1523–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goulielmakis E, Yakovlev VS, Cavalieri AL, et al. Attosecond control and measurement: lightwave electronics. Science 2007; 317: 769–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bielecki TR, Brigo D, Patras F. Credit Risk Frontiers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Fujii S, ed. Beyond Global Capitalism. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kari J. Structure of Reversible Cellular Automata. In: Calude CS, Costa JF, Dershowitz N, Freire E, Rozenberg G, eds. Unconventional Computation: 8th International Conference, UC 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

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 Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Early Universe Galaxies Like Ours Are Surrounded By ‘Super Halos’. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-universe-galaxies-like-ours-are-surrounded-by-super-halos/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Farmers Home Administration Needs To Better Plan, Direct, Develop, and Control Its Computer-Based Unified Management Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coles J. The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes. 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

Murphy MJO. Beyond the Whimsy, Sushi With Ambition. New York Times 7 Apr 2013; LI7.

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	Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine
ISSN (print)	1751-7214
ISSN (online)	1879-3622
Scope