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

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

1. Smaglik P. A cold shoulder for stocks. Nature. 2003;421:671.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dermitzakis ET, Clark AG. Genetics. Life after GWA studies. Science. 2009;326:239–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Vukusic P, Sambles JR, Lawrence CR. Colour mixing in wing scales of a butterfly. Nature. 2000;404:457.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tarantini C, Kametani F, Lee S, Jiang J, Weiss JD, Jaroszynski J, et al. Development of very high Jc in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films grown on CaF2. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jarman KH. Beyond Basic Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Hayat MA, editor. Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 8: Astrocytoma, Medulloblastoma, Retinoblastoma, Chordoma, Craniopharyngioma, Oligodendroglioma, and Ependymoma. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Marjovi A, Marques L. Multi-robot Topological Exploration Using Olfactory Cues. In: Martinoli A, Mondada F, Correll N, Mermoud G, Egerstedt M, Hsieh MA, et al., editors. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 10th International Symposium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 47–60.

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 Virology.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Spiders Have Threesomes To Avoid Cannibalistic Females. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Diffusing Innovations: Implementing the Technology Transfer Act of 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: PEMD-91-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Roediger E. Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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

1. Swarns RL, Robertson C. Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart. New York Times. 2015 Jun 20;A1.

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 Virology
ISSN (print)	0970-2822
ISSN (online)	0974-0120
Scope