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

Michelson AM. Developmental biology. From genetic association to genetic switch. Science 2008;322(5909):1803–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaidi A, Jackson SP. KAT5 tyrosine phosphorylation couples chromatin sensing to ATM signalling. Nature 2013;498(7452):70–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

West-Eberhard MJ, Smith JAC, Winter K. Plant science. Photosynthesis, reorganized. Science 2011;332(6027):311–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Janssen EM, Droin NM, Lemmens EE, Pinkoski MJ, Bensinger SJ, Ehst BD, et al. CD4+ T-cell help controls CD8+ T-cell memory via TRAIL-mediated activation-induced cell death. Nature 2005;434(7029):88–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik BS. Axiomatic Quality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Ramon J, Denis LJ, editors. Prostate Cancer. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Fliss DM, Gil Z. The Subcranial Approach to the Anterior Skull Base. In: Gil Z, editor. Atlas of Surgical Approaches to Paranasal Sinuses and the Skull Base. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. page 139–52.

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. New Galaxy Discovered Close To Our Own [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-images-newly-discovered-neighboring-galaxy/

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. Attrition of Scientists and Engineers at Seven Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kinney CE. Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control. 2009;

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Back Underwriters On New Issues. New York Times2007;C1.

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)