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

Ley TJ (2005) Retrospective: Stanley Joel Korsmeyer (1950-2005). Science 308:803–804

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor AF, Smith GR (2003) RecBCD enzyme is a DNA helicase with fast and slow motors of opposite polarity. Nature 423:889–893

A journal article with 3 authors

Courchamp F, Woodroffe R, Roemer G (2003) Removing protected populations to save endangered species. Science 302:1532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Narita M, Young ARJ, Arakawa S, et al (2011) Spatial coupling of mTOR and autophagy augments secretory phenotypes. Science 332:966–970

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Derryberry DR (2014) Basic Data Analysis for Time Series with R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Strate J (2015) Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server, Second Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Castillo E, Fernández-Canteli A (2009) Log-Weibull ε-N Model. In: Fernández-Canteli A (ed) A Unified Statistical Methodology for Modeling Fatigue Damage. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 113–125

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

Taub B (2016) Indonesian Birds Face Extinction Thanks To Illegal Pet Trade. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indonesian-birds-face-extinction-thanks-illegal-pet-trade/. 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 (1993) Social Security: Telephone Busy Signal Rates at Local SSA Field Offices. 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

Skiold-Hanlin S (2015) Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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 M (1993) PRESIDENT MOVES IN FAVOR OF LABOR. New York Times 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	Indian Geotechnical Journal
ISSN (print)	0971-9555
ISSN (online)	2277-3347
Scope