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

FitzGerald GA. Medicine. Can intellectual property save drug development? Science. 2012 Oct 26;338(6106):483–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu X, Brelsford C. Network structure and community evolution on Twitter: human behavior change in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 27;4:6773.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gouldstone A, Van Vliet KJ, Suresh S. Nanoindentation. Simulation of defect nucleation in a crystal. Nature. 2001 Jun 7;411(6838):656.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huynen L, Millar CD, Scofield RP, Lambert DM. Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa. Nature. 2003 Sep 11;425(6954):175–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waller FJ. Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Gabbrielli M, Gupta G, editors. Logic Programming: 21st International Conference, ICLP 2005, Sitges, Spain, October 2-5, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XIV, 458 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3668).

A chapter in an edited book

Medellin-Gasque R, Atkinson K, McBurney P, Bench-Capon T. Arguments over Co-operative Plans. In: Modgil S, Oren N, Toni F, editors. Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011 Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 50–66. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. 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 Human Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Are Humans Unique? It’s The Small Things That Count [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-humans-unique-it-s-small-things-count/

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. Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Jun. Report No.: GAO-01-766R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin HC. Depression screening in ambulatory care [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

Crow K. A Cultural Conundrum: The Chocolate Fortune Cookie. New York Times. 2003 Jun 1;146.

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)