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

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

Paul DR. Marerials science. Creating new types of carbon-based membranes. Science. 2012;335(6067):413-414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox AL, Siliciano RF. HIV: Not-so-innocent bystanders. Nature. 2014;505(7484):492-493.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petsch ST, Eglington TI, Edwards KJ. 14C-dead living biomass: evidence for microbial assimilation of ancient organic carbon during shale weathering. Science. 2001;292(5519):1127-1131.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liljeros F, Edling CR, Amaral LA, Stanley HE, Aberg Y. The web of human sexual contacts. Nature. 2001;411(6840):907-908.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McKean J. Customer’s New Voice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Kowalik JS, Gorski J, Sachenko A, eds. Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues Gdansk, Poland 6–9 September 2004. Vol 196. Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Erozan YS, Tatsas A. Biliary Tract. In: Tatsas A, ed. Cytopathology of Liver, Biliary Tract, Kidney and Adrenal Gland. Essentials in Cytopathology. Springer US; 2015:103-114.

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 Tuberculosis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Saturn’s Moon Enceladus May Have Been Knocked On Its Side. IFLScience. May 31, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturns-moon-enceladus-may-have-been-knocked-on-its-side/

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. Transfer Students: Postsecondary Institutions Could Promote More Consistent Consideration of Coursework by Not Basing Determinations on Accreditation. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crosby WO. ATI v. Colorado: How the Commerce Clause Provides Guidance at the Confluence of Energy, Environmental, and Constitutional Law. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2013.

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

Vecsey G. Deconstructing the Legend of Choo Choo. New York Times. January 24, 2012:B13.

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 Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Indian J. Tuberc.
ISSN (print)	0019-5707
Scope	Infectious Diseases