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

Kerr RA. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING: Geologists Pursue Solar System’s Oldest Relics. Science. 2000 Dec 22;290(5500):2239–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton DA, Malhotra R. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature. 2009 Feb 26;457(7233):1109–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chklovskii DB, Mel BW, Svoboda K. Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature. 2004 Oct 14;431(7010):782–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shi M, Lin XD, Chen X, Tian JH, Chen LJ, Li K, et al. The evolutionary history of vertebrate RNA viruses. Nature. 2018 Apr;556(7700):197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seyfried TN. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Kassim TA, editor. Water Pollution: Environmental Impact Assessment of Recycled Wastes on Surface and Ground Waters; Risk Analysis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XVII, 285 p. (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; vol. 2).

A chapter in an edited book

Tsay YK, Wang BY. Automated Compositional Reasoning of Intuitionistically Closed Regular Properties. In: Ibarra OH, Ravikumar B, editors. Implementation and Applications of Automata: 13th International Conference, CIAA 2008, San Francisco, California, USA, July 21-24, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 36–45. (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. Inhalable Vaccine Developed For Ebola [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/inhalable-vaccine-developed-ebola/

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. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Its New Acquisition Strategy [Reissued on August 13, 2012]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jul. Report No.: GAO-12-822.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aparicio EM. Examining Latina/o STEM degree aspirations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Saslow L. Firefighters Museum Plans to Expand Again. New York Times. 2008 Mar 9;LI11.

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)

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