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

Zatorre RJ. Predispositions and plasticity in music and speech learning: neural correlates and implications. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):585–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valenzuela SO, Tinkham M. Direct electronic measurement of the spin Hall effect. Nature. 2006 Jul 13;442(7099):176–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labeit A, Peinemann F, Kedir A. Cervical cancer screening service utilisation in UK. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2362.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sehorn MG, Sigurdsson S, Bussen W, Unger VM, Sung P. Human meiotic recombinase Dmc1 promotes ATP-dependent homologous DNA strand exchange. Nature. 2004 May 27;429(6990):433–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell CA, Collins M. The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Sammes N, editor. Fuel Cell Technology: Reaching Towards Commercialization. London: Springer; 2006. XIV, 298 p. 139 illus. (Engineering Materials and Processes).

A chapter in an edited book

Małachowski B. Multiple Criteria Decision Support System for Tender Consortium Building Within the Cluster Organization. In: Różewski P, Novikov D, Bakhtadze N, Zaikin O, editors. New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-based Production. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–17. (Intelligent Systems Reference Library).

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. Indian Boy Born With Three Penises [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/boy-born-three-penises-and-no-anus-successfully-operated/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Time Is Running Out for Federal Agencies to Prepare for the New Millennium. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jul. Report No.: T-AIMD-97-129.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martin RL. Development of a Nutrition Program with Emphasis on Use of Social Media for Middle School Students [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

Walsh MW. Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says. New York Times. 2010 Oct 26;B1.

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