How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 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

Khochbin S. 2000. Persian role in flowering of Islamic science. Nature 405(6782): 14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fujii N and Graybiel A M. 2003. Representation of action sequence boundaries by macaque prefrontal cortical neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5637): 1246–1249.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks S J, Currie B and Bakun A. 2002. Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic. Nature 415(6871): 493–494.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miles L A, Crespi G A N, Doughty L and Parker M W. 2013. Bapineuzumab captures the N-terminus of the Alzheimer’s disease amyloid-beta peptide in a helical conformation. Scientific reports 3: 1302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wildi O. 2010. Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Welch W J, Palm F, Bruley D F and Harrison D K eds. 2013. Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXIV. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hinkson G, Erskine C, Heerema M, Mallott C, Keefe M and Griffith H. 2009. Working with Vectors. Foundation Fireworks CS4, pp48–73. Erskine C, Heerema M, Mallott C, Keefe M, Griffith H, Andres C, Pundick D, Anglin S, Beckner M, Buckingham E, Campbell T, Cornell G, Gennick J, Hassell J, Lowman M, Moodie M, Parkes D, Pepper J, Pohlmann F, Renow-Clarke B, Shakeshaft D, Wade M, Welsh T, Knox A and Cheu L(Eds). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Journal of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Watch Diver Fend Off Sea Lion Attack. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-diver-fend-sea-lion-attack/ (last accessed 30 October 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. 2016. Emergency Management: Improved Federal Coordination Could Better Assist K-12 Schools Prepare for Emergencies.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skinner R. 2009. Artistiya: Popular music and personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali. Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY, Columbia 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. 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; A Contest of 2 Generations, Molded by 2 Different Wars. New York Times, 30 August, page 11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Khochbin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fujii and Graybiel 2003, Khochbin 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fujii and Graybiel 2003)
Three or more authors: (Miles et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
ISSN (print)	0019-5022
ISSN (online)	2394-3319
Scope