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

Grünbaum D. Behavior. Align in the sand. Science 2006;312(5778):1320–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guy-Grand D, Vassalli P. Immunology. Tracing an orphan’s genealogy. Science 2004;305(5681):185–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp B, Pál C, Hurst LD. Dosage sensitivity and the evolution of gene families in yeast. Nature 2003;424(6945):194–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Atkinson PJ, Wise AK, Flynn BO, Nayagam BA, Richardson RT. Viability of long-term gene therapy in the cochlea. Sci Rep 2014;4:4733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz CB, Ewing J, Hecht J. Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Garrigue J, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 12th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen X, Liu Y, Tu D. Surface Modification Chemistry of Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles. In: Liu Y, Tu D, editors. Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. page 59–74.

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

Hale T. Google Hopes To Connect Indonesia To The Web With Internet-Beaming Balloons [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-hopes-connect-indonesia-web-internet-beaming-balloon/

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. Motorcycle Safety: Increasing Federal Funding Flexibility and Identifying Research Priorities Would Help Support States’ Safety Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Savvas C. Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States. 2010;

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

Pilon M, Lehren AW. Modified Training for Children Stirs New Debates. New York Times2014;B14.

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)