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

Hong W, Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Assembly of a neural circuit, Science, 342 (6163) 2013 1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi A & Ma L, Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa, Sci Rep, 4 2014 7040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barry L, Craig GC, & Thuburn J, Poleward heat transport by the atmospheric heat engine, Nature, 415 (6873) 2002 774–777.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Wang L, Gu Y, Chen H, Zhang J-Y, Cui Y, et al., Polarized linewidth-controllable double-trapping electromagnetically induced transparency spectra in a resonant plasmon nanocavity, Sci Rep, 3 2013 2879.

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 Technical Planning for on-site Emergencies, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ), 1995.

An edited book

Gong M, Linqiang P, Tao S, Tang K, & Zhang X eds, Bio-Inspired Computing -- Theories and Applications: 10th International Conference, BIC-TA 2015 Hefei, China, September 25-28, 2015, Proceedings, Volume 562, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

de Blok WJG, Oh S-H, & Frank BS, Galaxy Dynamics, In: The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010, edited by Barbosa D, Anton S, Gurvits L, Maia D, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 2012, 43–51.

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, Researchers May Have Discovered The Consciousness On/Off Switch, IFLScience, (https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-may-have-discovered-consciousness-onoff-switch/), 2014.

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, Management Improvement in the Federal Government, (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC), 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wheatley BA, Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles, Doctoral dissertation, (Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ), 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

Leland J, The Innocents of Times Square, New York Times. , September 23, 2016:MB7.

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