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

McKnight SL (2010) On getting there from here. Science 330:1338–1339

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance V, Vaucheret H (2001) RNA silencing in plants--defense and counterdefense. Science 292:2277–2280

A journal article with 3 authors

Pinker RT, Zhang B, Dutton EG (2005) Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation? Science 308:850–854

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yeh JT-H, Binari R, Gocha T, et al (2013) PAPTi: a peptide aptamer interference toolkit for perturbation of protein-protein interaction networks. Sci Rep 3:1156

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa M, Vemuri K, Bennett A (2006) Parlay/OSA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Casteleyn S (2009) Engineering Web Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Omar HA, Zhuang W (2014) Conclusions and Future Works. In: Zhuang W (ed) Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–60

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

Luntz S (2014) Early Autism Diagnosis Bears Fruit. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/early-autism-diagnosis-bears-fruit/. 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 (1990) Railroad Safety: FRA’s Staffing Model Cannot Estimate Inspectors Needed for Safety Mission. 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

Gomez DA (2010) System of systems engineering: Prescribing the technical development effort to engineer a constituent system. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Novick SM (2014) A Bowl of Warmth and Comfort. New York Times LI9

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