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

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

Kolber ZS. Ecology. Getting a better picture of the ocean’s nitrogen budget. Science 2006;312(5779):1479–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman MP, Watkins NW. Auroral and space physics. The heavens in a pile of sand. Science 2002;298(5595):979–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunham EM, Favreau P, Carlson JM. A supershear transition mechanism for cracks. Science 2003;299(5612):1557–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pessiglione M, Seymour B, Flandin G, Dolan RJ, Frith CD. Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans. Nature 2006;442(7106):1042–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa M, Vemuri K, Bennett A. Parlay/OSA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Hou Z, editor. Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation in Electrical Engineering. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Czeizler E, Gratie C, Chiu WK, Kanhaiya K, Petre I. Target Controllability of Linear Networks. In: Bartocci E, Lio P, Paoletti N, editors. Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 14th International Conference, CMSB 2016, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 67–81.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Darwin’s Finches Highlight The Unity Of All Life [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/darwin-s-finches-highlight-unity-all-life/

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. Question Concerning Whether Funds Available Under Career Education Incentive Act Were Illegally Rescinded. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

To KS. Loss of Promoter Methylation is Correlated with mRNA Induction of Senescence Upregulated Gene UGT78D1. 2017;

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

Vecsey G. U.S. Grateful to Be Part Of a Sport’s Growth. New York Times2011;D4.

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 Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0253-7613
ISSN (online)	1998-3751
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology