How to format your references using the Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Jones DA. Financial pain should focus universities. Nature 2010;465:32–3.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Sahakian B, Morein-Zamir S. Professor’s little helper. Nature 2007;450:1157–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Bánsági T Jr, Vanag VK, Epstein IR. Tomography of reaction-diffusion microemulsions reveals three-dimensional Turing patterns. Science 2011;331:1309–12.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Zhang R, Kim AS, Fox JM, Nair S, Basore K, Klimstra WB, et al. Mxra8 is a receptor for multiple arthritogenic alphaviruses. Nature 2018;557:570–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Arboleda H, Royer J-C. Model-Driven and Software Product Line Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.
An edited book
[1]
Mukhopadhyay SC, Leung H, editors. Advances in Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks. vol. 64. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Azcue P, Muler N. Characterization of Value Functions. In: Muler N, editor. Stochastic Optimization in Insurance: A Dynamic Programming Approach, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 75–96.

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 Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal.

Blog post
[1]
Taub B. Iowa Democratic Party Becomes First In US To Back Legalizing All Drugs. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/iowa-democratic-party-becomes-first-us-back-legalizing-all-drugs/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Haws SW. A multilevel study of schools’ influences on adolescent substance use. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 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]
Fernandez M, Fausset R. Houston Mayor’s Grave Dilemma: Whether to Tell Residents to Stay or Go. New York Times 2017:A11.

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 titleIndian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
AbbreviationIndian Pacing Electrophysiol. J.
ISSN (print)0972-6292
ScopeCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Physiology (medical)

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