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:

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

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Tokano T. Planetary science. Precipitation climatology on Titan. Science 2011;331:1393–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Donia MS, Fischbach MA. HUMAN MICROBIOTA. Small molecules from the human microbiota. Science 2015;349:1254766.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

West-Eberhard MJ, Smith JAC, Winter K. Plant science. Photosynthesis, reorganized. Science 2011;332:311–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Marshall L, Helgadóttir H, Mölle M, Born J. Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory. Nature 2006;444:610–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Thompson GR. Reading the American Novel 1865-1914. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Yuan X-Z. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in PEM Fuel Cells: Fundamentals and Applications. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Antsaklis PJ, Michel AN. Stability. In: Michel AN, editor. A Linear Systems Primer, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2007, p. 141–94.

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

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Hamilton K. The Science Of Orgasms. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/science-orgasms/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. National Aero-Space Plane: A Technology Development and Demonstration Program To Build the X-30. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Polk RL. Examining students with disabilities in a linked learning pathway. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

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Crow K. Where 146 Died in a Fire, And a Union Was Born. New York Times 2002:146.

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 Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
Abbreviation	Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J.
ISSN (print)	0972-6292
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)