How to format your references using the World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 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

Emanuel K. Retrospective. Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008). Science 2008; 320: 1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vähärautio A, Taipale J. Cancer. Cancer by super-enhancer. Science 2014; 346: 1291–1292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chávez AE, Singer JH, Diamond JS. Fast neurotransmitter release triggered by Ca influx through AMPA-type glutamate receptors. Nature 2006; 443: 705–708.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kim JH, Woo HR, Kim J, Lim PO, Lee IC, Choi SH, Hwang D, Nam HG. Trifurcate feed-forward regulation of age-dependent cell death involving miR164 in Arabidopsis. Science 2009; 323: 1053–1057.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro PF. Plastics Product Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Butler M, Schewe K-D, Mashkoor A, Biro M (eds). Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z: 5th International Conference, ABZ 2016, Linz, Austria, May 23-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Ogawa K, Sterken E, Tokutsu I. Multiple Bank Relationships and the Main Bank System: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Japanese Small Firms and Main Banks. In: Calcagnini G, Saltari E, editors. The Economics of Imperfect Markets: The Effects of Market Imperfections on Economic Decision-Making. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2009: 73–90.

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 World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Blog post

Fang J. North Americans Were Salmon Fishing 11,500 Years Ago. IFLScience. 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. Default Rates on Federal Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belflower KE. The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. 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

Shpigel B. Aim That Kick Just to the Left of Those Flutists. New York Times. 2016; : SP1.

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	World Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
ISSN (online)	2218-6220
Scope