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

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

Wulff K. Examining knowledge of geometry. Science. 2006 Jun 2;312(5778):1309–10; author reply 1309-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sriskantharajah S, Ley SC. Cell biology. Turning off inflammation signaling. Science. 2010 Feb 26;327(5969):1093–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arita I, Nakane M, Fenner F. Public health. Is polio eradication realistic? Science. 2006 May 12;312(5775):852–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Braine J, Lisenfeld U, Duc PA, Leon S, Due PA. Formation of molecular gas in the tidal debris of violent galaxy-galaxy interactions. Nature. 2000 Feb 24;403(6772):867–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burghardt G, Walls B. Managed Futures for Institutional Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Eischen EE, Long L, Pries R, Stange KE, editors. Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XV, 339 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color. (Association for Women in Mathematics Series; vol. 3).

A chapter in an edited book

Branton N. Landscape Approaches in Historical Archaeology: The Archaeology of Places. In: Gaimster D, Majewski T, editors. International Handbook of Historical Archaeology. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 51–65.

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 Plastic Surgery.

Blog post

Luntz S. New York Males Have More Aggressive Sperm [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-york-males-have-aggressive-sperm/

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. Environmental Satellite Acquisitions: Progress and Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-1099T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kuang SYH. “And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Davey M. Limits on Unions Pass in Michigan, Once a Mainstay. New York Times. 2012 Dec 11;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Plastic Surgery
Abbreviation	Indian J. Plast. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0970-0358
ISSN (online)	1998-376X
Scope	Surgery