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

Vanclay JK. The effectiveness of parks. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Straus SE, Chesney MA. Science and government. Enhanced: in defense of NCCAM. Science. 2006 Jul 21;313(5785):303–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hemingway J, Field L, Vontas J. An overview of insecticide resistance. Science. 2002 Oct 4;298(5591):96–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Buzio R, Repetto L, Giacopelli F, Ravazzolo R, Valbusa U. Symmetric curvature descriptors for label-free analysis of DNA. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 24;4:6459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society. Recommendations on Excavations EAB. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

Maagdelijn E, Sluijs JJM, Verkoulen M, editors. Excelleren in de zorg. Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum; 2011. 128 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhaumik P, Bandyopadhyay S. A Mobility Tolerant Cluster Management Protocol with Dynamic Surrogate Cluster-Heads for a Large Ad Hoc Network. In: Chaudhuri S, Das SR, Paul HS, Tirthapura S, editors. Distributed Computing and Networking: 8th International Conference, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, India, December 27-30, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 40–5. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. 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

Fang J. Small Birds are Scared Off by Fake Owl Eyes on Butterfly Wings [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/small-birds-are-scared-fake-owl-eyes-butterfly-wings/

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. National Aero-Space Plane: A Need for Program Direction and Funding Decisions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-93-207.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelly JC. The fluid evolution of the Mount Mica and Irish Pit pegmatites, Maine: Evidence from stable isotopes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. MetLife Will Repatriate an Offshore Reinsurance Unit to Mollify Regulators. New York Times. 2013 May 22;B4.

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