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. Banwart S. Save our soils. Nature. 2011;474:151–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Canup RM, Asphaug E. Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth’s formation. Nature. 2001;412:708–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B. Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature. 2005;437:720–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Slon V, Mafessoni F, Vernot B, de Filippo C, Grote S, Viola B, et al. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature. 2018;561:113–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mix PE. Introduction to Nondestructive Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Brasseur GP. Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere. Third revised and enlarged edition. Solomon S, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hellström L. A Rewriting Approach to Graph Invariants. In: Silvestrov S, Paal E, Abramov V, Stolin A, editors. Generalized Lie Theory in Mathematics, Physics and Beyond. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 47–67.

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. Andrew E. After Kepler, What Is Next For The Planet Hunters? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-kepler-what-next-planet-hunters/

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. Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security are Under Way, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Oct. Report No.: GAO-08-140T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Luong W. An identity building program for American-born children of Southeast Asian refugees [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Koblin J. AMC and Comcast to Offer A Commercial-Free Option. New York Times. 2017 Jun 29;B2.

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