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

Goodman S. Bricks and mortar. Nature 2004;427(6975):660.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gani R, Leach S. Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations. Nature 2001;414(6865):748–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper M, Weiss U, Gray N. Plasticity. Nature 2010;465(7299):703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alt A, Lammens K, Chiocchini C, Lammens A, Pieck JC, Kuch D, et al. Bypass of DNA lesions generated during anticancer treatment with cisplatin by DNA polymerase eta. Science 2007;318(5852):967–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan TP. Modern Engineering Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Homma I, Shioda S, editors. Breathing, Feeding, and Neuroprotection. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan MW, Gibson D, Walsh R, Masood A, Benabdelkamel H. An Overview of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry and Some of Its Applications. In: Banoub J, editor. Detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Agents for the Prevention of Terrorism: Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. page 69–81.

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. Autistic Kids Low On Vital Social Hormone, Study Suggests [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/autistic-kids-low-vital-social-hormone-study-suggests/

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. Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at the University of Southern California and Participating Schools in Tulare County Serving Rural-Migrant Children. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davies GL. An analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s “Third Wind”: Arranging techniques and performance considerations. 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

de la MERCED MJ. Investors Give $90 Million To a Flying Car Start-Up. New York Times2017;B2.

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