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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Physics (IJP). 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

[1]

X Bosch Nature 405 604 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M Maslin and J Scott Nature 475 445 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D G Pearson, S W Parman, and G M Nowell Nature 449 202 (2007).

A journal article with 20 or more authors

[1]

V Debaille, A D Brandon, Q Z Yin, and B Jacobsen Nature 450 525 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P J J Alvarez and W A Illman Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation (Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) (2005).

An edited book

[1]

J Briscoe Nanostructured Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (ed) S Dunn (Cham : Springer International Publishing) (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G D H Claassen and E M T Hendrix On Modelling Approaches for Planning and Scheduling in Food Processing Industry (eds) B Murgante, S Misra, A M A C Rocha, C Torre, J G Rocha, M I Falcão, D Taniar, B O Apduhan, and O Gervasi, (Cham : Springer International Publishing) p 47 (2014).

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 Physics.

Blog post

[1]

J Fang Human Language Gene Speeds Up Learning in Mice, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/human-language-gene-speeds-learning-mice/ .

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office Highway Safety: Factors Affecting Involvement in Vehicle Crashes (Washington, DC : U.S. Government Printing Office) (1994).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L-A T Dao Doctoral dissertation (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA) (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

[1]

B Brantley New York Times C1 (2017).

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 Physics
ISSN (print)	0973-1458
ISSN (online)	0974-9845
Scope