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

Mackinnon R. Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science. 2004;306(5700):1304-1305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fletcher DA, Mullins RD. Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton. Nature. 2010;463(7280):485-492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palla G, Barabási AL, Vicsek T. Quantifying social group evolution. Nature. 2007;446(7136):664-667.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Najman Y, Pringle M, Godin L, Oliver G. Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin. Nature. 2001;410(6825):194-197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. Accounting Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Huo Q, Ma B, Chng ES, Li H, eds. Chinese Spoken Language Processing: 5th International Symposium, ISCSLP 2006, Singapore, December 13-16, 2006. Proceedings. Vol 4274. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Mancuso M, Orsucci D, LoGerfo A, Calsolaro V, Siciliano G. Clinical Features and Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease: Involvement of Mitochondria and Mitochondrial DNA. In: Ahmad SI, ed. Diseases of DNA Repair. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer; 2010:34-44.

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

Luntz S. Premenstrual Symptoms Linked To Inflamation. IFLScience. Published June 22, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/premenstrual-symptoms-linked-to-inflamation/

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. Use of ADP Equipment Operated by Three or Four Typical Government Contractors. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

VanQuickenborne T. Exploring Generative Change. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 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

Kelly BKB, curator of special collections at Hofstra University in Hempstead, based this article on her dissertation in progress at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. THE SUBURBAN REVOLUTION. New York Times. February 1, 1987:11LI1.

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