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

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

Norenzayan A. Behavior. Explaining human behavioral diversity. Science. 2011 May 27;332(6033):1041–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF. AIDS/HIV. Rekindled HIV infection. Science. 2014 Aug 29;345(6200):1005–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones GH, Balogh A, Horbury TS. Identification of comet Hyakutake’s extremely long ion tail from magnetic field signatures. Nature. 2000 Apr 6;404(6778):574–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marlovits TC, Kubori T, Sukhan A, Thomas DR, Galán JE, Unger VM. Structural insights into the assembly of the type III secretion needle complex. Science. 2004 Nov 5;306(5698):1040–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles R. 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Kanosue K, Nagami T, Tsuchiya J, editors. Sports Performance. 1st ed. 2015. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015. XI, 388 p. 110 illus., 44 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Tadatomo K. Epitaxy Part B. Epitaxial Growth of GaN on Patterned Sapphire Substrates. In: Seong TY, Han J, Amano H, Morkoc H, editors. III-Nitride Based Light Emitting Diodes and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 59–81. (Topics in Applied Physics).

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 Anaesthesia.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 22 Ways To Be Healthier With Minimal Effort [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ways-to-be-healthier-with-minimal-effort/

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. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Complete Recent Efforts to Develop Policies and Procedures to Guide Requirements Development and Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Mar. Report No.: GAO-06-310.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Llamas AL. ALLTAP Solutions, LLC: A Business Plan [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Poniewozik J. When Leer Was King. New York Times. 2017 Sep 7;C1.

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 Journal of Anaesthesia
Abbreviation	Indian J. Anaesth.
ISSN (print)	0019-5049
ISSN (online)	0976-2817
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine