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

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

Young ED (2007) Geochemistry. Strange water in the solar system. Science 317:211–212

A journal article with 2 authors

Zelzer E, Olsen BR (2003) The genetic basis for skeletal diseases. Nature 423:343–348

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomas AM, Nadeau RM, Bürgmann R (2009) Tremor-tide correlations and near-lithostatic pore pressure on the deep San Andreas fault. Nature 462:1048–1051

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang L, Fan C, Topol SE, et al (2003) Mutation of MEF2A in an inherited disorder with features of coronary artery disease. Science 302:1578–1581

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo SM, Lee BH, Tian W (2006) Real-Time Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Zu Q, Vargas-Vera M, Hu B (2014) Pervasive Computing and the Networked World: Joint International Conference, ICPCA/SWS 2013, Vina del Mar, Chile, December 5-7, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

White R (2015) Juvenile Justice and Youth Vulnerabilities. In: Riele K te, Gorur R (eds) Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 63–77

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 Surgical Oncology.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) The White House Starts Twitter Account To Spread Awareness Of Climate Change. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/white-house-starts-twitter-account-spread-awareness-climate-change/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Government Making Progress But Critical Issues Must Still Be Addressed to Minimize Disruptions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kong W (2010) The Role of MicroRNA-155 in Human Breast Cancer. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kelly K (2017) From Wall Street to National Mall. New York Times B1

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 Surgical Oncology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Surg. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	0975-7651
ISSN (online)	0976-6952
Scope	Oncology Surgery

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