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

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

Kruzic JJ. Materials science. Predicting fatigue failures. Science. 2009 Jul 10;325(5937):156–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perry B, Sones K. Science for development. Poverty reduction through animal health. Science. 2007 Jan 19;315(5810):333–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hopkins M, Harrison TM, Manning CE. Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions. Nature. 2008 Nov 27;456(7221):493–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu J, Xu J, Liu B, Yao G, Wang P, Lin Z, et al. Publisher Correction: Chromatin analysis in human early development reveals epigenetic transition during ZGA. Nature. 2018 Aug;560(7718):E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hagen J. Chemiereaktoren. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Kaklamanis C, Nielson F, editors. Trustworthy Global Computing: 4th International Symposium, TGC 2008, Barcelona, Spain, November 3-4, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. IX, 217 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5474).

A chapter in an edited book

Timmis J, Andrews P, Owens N, Clark E. Immune Systems and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Adventure. In: Calude CS, Costa JF, Freund R, Oswald M, Rozenberg G, editors. Unconventional Computing: 7th International Conference, UC 2008 Vienna, Austria, August 25-28, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 8–18. (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 Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew E. Magnetic Levitation Train Could Reach Speeds Of 1,800 Miles Per Hour [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/magnetic-levitation-train-could-reach-speeds-1800-miles-hour/

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 Safety: Medical Certification and Background Check Requirements for Pilots, Vessel Masters, and Commercial Drivers Vary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Feb. Report No.: GAO-08-421R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Butler-Roberts J. Fashioning distinction: construction of identity through dress and photography in nineteenth-century Paris [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

Vecsey G. It’s Form, Not Dysfunction, on Final Day. New York Times. 2011 Sep 13;B16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Cancer
Abbreviation	Indian J. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0019-509X
ISSN (online)	1998-4774
Scope	Oncology