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. Geisbert TW. Medical research: Ebola therapy protects severely ill monkeys. Nature. 2014;514:41–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zeng L, Song R. Controlling chloride ions diffusion in concrete. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3359.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lackner LL, Horner JS, Nunnari J. Mechanistic analysis of a dynamin effector. Science. 2009;325:874–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sengar SK, Mehta BR, Kumar R, Singh V. In-flight gas phase growth of metal/multi layer graphene core shell nanoparticles with controllable sizes. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2814.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Meier HB, Marthinsen JE, Gantenbein PA. Swiss Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Picco GP, Heinzelman W, editors. Wireless Sensor Networks: 9th European Conference, EWSN 2012, Trento, Italy, February 15-17, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liang J, Wang Z, Liu X. On Synchronization of Coupled Delayed Neural Networks. In: Kyamakya K, Halang WA, Unger H, Chedjou JC, Rulkov NF, Li Z, editors. Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 117–49.

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. Andrew E. Critically Endangered Parrot Humps Zoologist [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/critically-endangered-parrot-humps-zoologist/

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. Aviation Security: Challenges in Using Biometric Technologies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-785T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McGary J. Gender and the poverty-conflict trap [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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. Rothenberg B. Skipping the French Open Is a Strategy That Fits a Unique Player. New York Times. 2017 May 22;B7.

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