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

Ridley RG. Medical need, scientific opportunity and the drive for antimalarial drugs. Nature. 2002 Feb 7;415(6872):686–93.

A journal article with 2 authors

Casasanto D, Gordon P. Crying “Whorf.” Science. 2005 Mar 18;307(5716):1721–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang J, Goldstein JI, Scott ERD. Iron meteorite evidence for early formation and catastrophic disruption of protoplanets. Nature. 2007 Apr 19;446(7138):888–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scanlon TM, Caylor KK, Levin SA, Rodriguez-Iturbe I. Positive feedbacks promote power-law clustering of Kalahari vegetation. Nature. 2007 Sep 13;449(7159):209–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra A. Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Stock JA, Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Albala DM, editors. Urologic Robotic Surgery. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008. XIV, 240 p. 77 illus. (Current Clinical Urology).

A chapter in an edited book

Sachar R, Kapadia S. Cerebrovascular Anatomy. In: Saw J, Exaire JE, Lee DS, Yadav JS, editors. Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007. p. 65–82.

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. Oceans Endure on Super-Earths [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/oceans-last-super-earths/

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. Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 May. Report No.: T-AIMD-94-117.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cervantes I. Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Leland J. Carlsen, ‘Mozart of Chess,’ Overwhelms Challenger to Win Championship. New York Times. 2016 Dec 1;A29.

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