How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK). 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

Stroud CR Jr, Physics. Pas de deux for atomic electrons, Science, 303 (5659) 2004 778–779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weyand S & Iwata S, Biochemistry. Old gate gets a new look, Science, 329 (5988) 2010 151–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsumoto M, Saito S, & Ohmine I, Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing, Nature, 416 (6879) 2002 409–413.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Fischer A, Sananbenesi F, Wang X, Dobbin M, & Tsai L-H, Recovery of learning and memory is associated with chromatin remodelling, Nature, 447 (7141) 2007 178–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building, Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment, (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK), 2016.

An edited book

Hefley WE & Wang Y eds, Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Case Studies and Impacts, Volume 45, (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Happe J, Theilmann W, & Wert A, Service Construction Meta-Model, In: Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing, edited by Wieder P, Butler JM, Theilmann W, Yahyapour R, (Springer, New York, NY), 2011, 69–78.

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 Traditional Knowledge.

Blog post

Andrew E, Multivitamins are a waste of money for healthy people, according to physicians, IFLScience, (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/multivitamins-are-waste-money-healthy-people-according-physicians/), 2013.

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, Developing and Using Questionnaires, (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC), 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herrera K, Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA), 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

Casselman B, Experts Foresee a U.S. Work Force Defined by Ever Widening Divides, New York Times. , October 24, 2017:B3.

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 Traditional Knowledge
ISSN (print)	0972-5938
ISSN (online)	0975-1068
Scope