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

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

1. Rutter GA. Cell biology. Pancreas micromanages autophagy. Science. 2015;347:826–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Myers RA, Worm B. Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature. 2003;423:280–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ye J, Kimble HJ, Katori H. Quantum state engineering and precision metrology using state-insensitive light traps. Science. 2008;320:1734–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Maya Vetencourt JF, Sale A, Viegi A, Baroncelli L, De Pasquale R, O’Leary OF, et al. The antidepressant fluoxetine restores plasticity in the adult visual cortex. Science. 2008;320:385–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Focardi SM, Fabozzi FJ, Bali TG. Mathematical Methods for Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Cai W, editor. Engineering in Translational Medicine. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Anne KR, Kuchibhotla S, Vankayalapati HD. Emotional Speech Corpora. In: Kuchibhotla S, Vankayalapati HD, editors. Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 33–5.

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 Clinical Biochemistry.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Weasel Takes A Wild Ride On A Woodpecker’s Back [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/weasel-takes-wild-ride-woodpecker-s-back/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Apr. Report No.: CED-77-60.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wood RD. Correlation of conductor leadership style, musician employment status, organizational participation to orchestra musician job satisfaction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

1. Dominus S. “Come as You Are.” New York Times. 2015 Feb 19;MM144.

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 Clinical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Indian J. Clin. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0970-1915
ISSN (online)	0974-0422
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry