How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology citation style

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

Kleppner D. Physics. A more precise fine structure constant. Science 2006;313(5786):448–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pattabiraman VR, Bode JW. Rethinking amide bond synthesis. Nature 2011;480(7378):471–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cook DJ, Teves L, Tymianski M. Treatment of stroke with a PSD-95 inhibitor in the gyrencephalic primate brain. Nature 2012;483(7388):213–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Heremans JP, Jovovic V, Toberer ES, Saramat A, Kurosaki K, Charoenphakdee A, et al. Enhancement of thermoelectric efficiency in PbTe by distortion of the electronic density of states. Science 2008;321(5888):554–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A. VoLTE and ViLTE. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Kashmiri SM. Electrothermal Frequency References in Standard CMOS. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bueno NP. Assessing the Role of Network Effects in Propagation Phenomena in Real World Networks. In: Król D, Fay D, Gabryś B, editors. Propagation Phenomena in Real World Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 91–106.

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 Medical Microbiology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Orangutans Come Down From The Trees [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orangutans-come-down-trees/

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 Security: Cost Estimates Related to TSA Funding of Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Los Angeles and Ontario Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fountain JM. Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model. 2014;

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

Marx L. Designing a Lasting Partnership. New York Times2015;ST13.

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 Medical Microbiology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Med. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0255-0857
ISSN (online)	1998-3646
Scope	Microbiology (medical)