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

Brandenburg A. Cosmology. Magnetic mysteries. Science. 2001 Jun 29;292(5526):2440–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Attrill MJ, Power M. Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage. Nature. 2002 May 16;417(6886):275–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sekiguchi Y, Arai K, Kohshima S. Sleep behaviour: sleep in continuously active dolphins. Nature. 2006 Jun 22;441(7096):E9-10; discussion E11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Smith GP, Wiens DA, Fischer KM, Dorman LM, Webb SC, Hildebrand JA. A complex pattern of mantle flow in the Lau backarc. Science. 2001 Apr 27;292(5517):713–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West BJ, Griffin LA. Biodynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Dale C, Anderson T, editors. Advances in Systems Safety: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK, 8-10th February 2011. London: Springer; 2011. X, 315 p. 62 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Rauch A, Baschant U, Tuckermann J. Lessons from Glucocorticoid Receptor Action in Bone: New Ways to Avoid Side Effects of Steroid Therapy. In: Choi Y, editor. Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 31–48.

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. Stopping Mangrove Deforestation In Indonesia Could Help Slow Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Freight Transportation: Developing National Strategy Would Benefit from Added Focus on Community Congestion Impacts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Sep. Report No.: GAO-14-740.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bombard B. Literature circles book club for science and language arts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Kanter J. E.U. Endorses Guidelines to Negotiate ‘Brexit.’ New York Times. 2017 Apr 29;A4.

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