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

Boothroyd AI. Astronomy. Heavy elements in stars. Science. 2006 Dec 15;314(5806):1690–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox P, Stephenson D. Climate change. A changing climate for prediction. Science. 2007 Jul 13;317(5835):207–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg MC, Sanford TB, Winkel DP. Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters. Nature. 2003 Apr 3;422(6931):513–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cirelli C, Bushey D, Hill S, Huber R, Kreber R, Ganetzky B, et al. Reduced sleep in Drosophila Shaker mutants. Nature. 2005 Apr 28;434(7037):1087–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewulf G, Blanken A, Bult-Spiering M. Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Kreps D, Fletcher G, Griffiths M, editors. Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion: 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC12 2016, Salford, UK, September 7-9, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XXV, 345 p. 74 illus. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 474).

A chapter in an edited book

Carr LP, Nanni AJ. Delivering Results Context. In: Nanni AJ Jr, editor. Delivering Results: Managing What Matters. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009. p. 41–57.

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

Andrew D. What It’s Like Inside The Doomsday Vault That Stores Every Known Crop On The Planet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-its-like-inside-the-doomsday-vault-that-stores-every-known-crop-on-the-planet/

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. Transportation Security R&D: TSA and DHS Are Researching and Developing Technologies, but Need to Improve R&D Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Sep. Report No.: GAO-04-890.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown HP. The Pragmatics of Direct Address in the Iliad: A Study in Linguistic Politeness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2003.

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

Wagner J. Still Standing, if Barely Upright, Cubs Face a Quick Turnaround. New York Times. 2017 Oct 14;SP7.

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