How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Human Genetics citation style

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

Hartung T. Toxicology for the twenty-first century. Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):208–12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forte AM, Mitrovica JX. Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data. Nature. 2001 Apr 26;410(6832):1049–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chin G, Marathe T, Roberts L. Population. Doom or vroom? Introduction. Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):538–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gong D, Ma W, Kendrick KM, Hu Q, Yao D. How cognitive plasticity resolves the brain’s information processing dilemma. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 4;3:2860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubin D. Numerical and Analytical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Using Mathematica. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Hackl K, editor. IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials, Bochum, Germany, September 22-26, 2008. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. XVII, 272 p. (IUTAM Bookseries; vol. 21).

A chapter in an edited book

Maher CA, Sran MK, Yankelewitz D. Towers: Schemes, Strategies, and Arguments. In: Maher CA, Powell AB, Uptegrove EB, editors. Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 27–43.

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 Human Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Huge Fossilized Tooth From Ancient Predator Described [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/huge-fossilized-tooth-ancient-predator-described/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: FHWA Should Assess and Compare the Benefits of Projects When Awarding Discretionary Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: RCED-99-263.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mazgaeen L. Differential RNAi Approaches to Enhance Knockdown Efficiency of Target Gene Transcripts in the Highly DDT-Resistant 91-R Strain of Drosophila melanogaster [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois 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

Sisario B. Bill Is Passed to Ban Bots That Ticket Scalpers Use. New York Times. 2016 Dec 9;B5.

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 Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Indian J. Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1998-362X
ISSN (online)	0971-6866
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)