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]

M Karin Nature 441 431 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M Manukyan and P B Singh Sci. Rep. 4 4789 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F Yu, J Ma, and S Han Sci. Rep. 4 5326 (2014).

A journal article with 20 or more authors

[1]

S P Curran, X Wu, C G Riedel, and G Ruvkun Nature 459 1079 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H Rapaport The Literary Theory Toolkit (Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd) (2011).

An edited book

[1]

I Fister and I Fister Jr (eds) Adaptation and Hybridization in Computational Intelligence (Cham : Springer International Publishing) (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J S Ferris, S L Winer, and B Grofman The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011 (eds) M Gallego and N Schofield, (Cham : Springer International Publishing) p 93 (2016).

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]

R Andrews The Most Swear-Prone US States Are Also The Most Trustworthy, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/swearprone-us-states-also-most-trustworthy/ .

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 Federal Advisory Groups: DOT and DOE Can Take Steps to Better Assess Duplication Risk and Enhance Usefulness (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

[1]

J E Roberts Doctoral dissertation (Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO) (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

[1]

M D Shear New York Times A16 (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