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

Crocker JC. Materials science. Turning away from high symmetry. Science. 2010 Jan 29;327(5965):535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu J, Broecker WS. Comment on “Deep-sea temperature and ice volume changes across the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transitions.” Science. 2010 Jun 18;328(5985):1480; author reply 1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrascheck M, Ye X, Buck LB. An antidepressant that extends lifespan in adult Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2007 Nov 22;450(7169):553–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Aathavan K, Politzer AT, Kaplan A, Moffitt JR, Chemla YR, Grimes S, et al. Substrate interactions and promiscuity in a viral DNA packaging motor. Nature. 2009 Oct 1;461(7264):669–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lahdenmäki T, Leach M. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Ochsner A, Altenbach H, editors. Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. VIII, 146 p. 110 illus., 62 illus. in color. (Advanced Structured Materials; vol. 40).

A chapter in an edited book

Jokinen K, Navarretta C, Paggio P. Distinguishing the Communicative Functions of Gestures. In: Popescu-Belis A, Stiefelhagen R, editors. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: 5th International Workshop, MLMI 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 8-10, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 38–49. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Hale T. Why Do LSD Trips Last So Long? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/why-do-lsd-trips-last-so-long/

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. Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: AIMD-99-72R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Demenkoff JH. Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2014.

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

Risen J. What Cold War Intrigue Can Tell Us About the Trump-Russia Inquiry. New York Times. 2017 Mar 29;A20.

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