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. Kelly JD. Make diagnostic centres a priority for Ebola crisis. Nature. 2014;513:145.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ronald PC, Beutler B. Plant and animal sensors of conserved microbial signatures. Science. 2010;330:1061–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hubbell JA, Thomas SN, Swartz MA. Materials engineering for immunomodulation. Nature. 2009;462:449–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Piel M, Nordberg J, Euteneuer U, Bornens M. Centrosome-dependent exit of cytokinesis in animal cells. Science. 2001;291:1550–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. bauforumstahl e.V. Beispiele zur Bemessung von Stahltragwerken nach DIN EN 1993 Eurocode 3. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

1. Huck WTS, editor. Nanoscale Assembly: Chemical Techniques. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lim MY, Aylett R, Ho WC, Enz S, Vargas P. A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents. In: Ruttkay Z, Kipp M, Nijholt A, Vilhjálmsson HH, editors. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14-16, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 20–6.

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. What Is The ‘Warm Blob’ In The Pacific And What Can It Tell Us About Our Future Climate? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-warm-blob-pacific-and-what-can-it-tell-us-about-our-future-climate/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Nov. Report No.: GAO-07-132R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sidwell MD. Indirect measures as predictors of social skills observed through means of direct observation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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

1. Robinson L. The Little Battles We Must Win. New York Times. 2008 Nov 23;WK9.

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