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

Dalton R. Golf course threatens to leave hole in fossil records. Nature. 2001 Aug 9;412(6847):572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park HJ, Friston K. Structural and functional brain networks: from connections to cognition. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):1238411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinothkumar KR, Zhu J, Hirst J. Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature. 2014 Nov 6;515(7525):80–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jiggins CD, Naisbit RE, Coe RL, Mallet J. Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry. Nature. 2001 May 17;411(6835):302–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1992.

An edited book

Lasaponara R, Masini N, editors. Satellite Remote Sensing: A New Tool for Archaeology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XVIII, 366 p. (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing; vol. 16).

A chapter in an edited book

Curry GL, Feldman RM. Processing Time Variability. In: Feldman RM, editor. Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 109–23.

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

Andrew E. New Measurements Suggest There May Be Half As Much Dark Matter In The Milky Way As Previously Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-measurements-suggest-there-may-be-half-much-dark-matter-milky-way-previously-thought/

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. Protest Against Award for Computer System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Oct. Report No.: B-178302.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kreisel M. Gabor frames for quasicrystals and K-theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Williams J. The Teacher Learns She’s a Student, Too. New York Times. 2017 Jul 30;C5.

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