How to format your references using the Indian Geotechnical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Geotechnical Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Bakardjiev A (2015) Immunology: Stillbirth prevented by signal blockade. Nature 520:627–628

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen EH, Olson EN (2005) Unveiling the mechanisms of cell-cell fusion. Science 308:369–373

A journal article with 3 authors

Schirle NT, Sheu-Gruttadauria J, MacRae IJ (2014) Structural basis for microRNA targeting. Science 346:608–613

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Serwold T, Gonzalez F, Kim J, et al (2002) ERAAP customizes peptides for MHC class I molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature 419:480–483

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grist F (2010) Basic Guide to Orthodontic Dental Nursing. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Morvan F, Tjoa AM (2010) Data Management in Grid and Peer-to-Peer Systems: Third International Conference, Globe 2010, Bilbao, Spain, September 1-2, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Billingsley J (2016) Instances and Contexts of the Head Motif in Britain. In: Hutton R (ed) Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 68–90

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 Indian Geotechnical Journal.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) How One Type Of Honey Bee Manages To Go It Alone Without Males. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-one-type-of-honey-bee-manages-to-go-it-alone-without-males/. 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 (1999) Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke DM (2014) Enhancing the patient safety culture of ABSN students through instruction on medical error recovery. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Kelly DA (2007) Take Me to Starbucks if You Can’t Amuse Me. New York Times H10

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	Indian Geotechnical Journal
ISSN (print)	0971-9555
ISSN (online)	2277-3347
Scope