How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine. 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

Chan FKM. Cell biology: A guardian angel of cell integrity. Nature. 2014 Sep 4;513(7516):38–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsieh J, Schneider JW. Neuroscience. Neural stem cells, excited. Science. 2013 Mar 29;339(6127):1534–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plante OJ, Palmacci ER, Seeberger PH. Automated solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides. Science. 2001 Feb 23;291(5508):1523–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lan F, Collins RE, De Cegli R, Alpatov R, Horton JR, Shi X, et al. Recognition of unmethylated histone H3 lysine 4 links BHC80 to LSD1-mediated gene repression. Nature. 2007 Aug 9;448(7154):718–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vorbrüggen H. Silicon-Mediated Transformations of Functional Groups. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Perrone Filardi P, editor. ACEi and ARBS in Hypertension and Heart Failure. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. X, 150 p. 19 illus., 13 illus. in color. (Current Cardiovascular Therapy; vol. 5).

A chapter in an edited book

Renner R. Quantum-Resilient Randomness Extraction. In: Fehr S, editor. Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 52–7. (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 Critical Care Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. FDA Buries Evidence of Fraud [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-burying-evidence-fraud/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs’ Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Nov. Report No.: GAO-06-266T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glasgow HL. Design and Selection of Probes for In Vivo Molecular Targeting and Imaging [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2015.

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

Rothenberg B. Agassi to Coach Djokovic at French Open. New York Times. 2017 May 21;D4.

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 Critical Care Medicine
Abbreviation	Indian J. Crit. Care Med.
ISSN (print)	0972-5229
ISSN (online)	1998-359X
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine