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

[1]

Smaglik P. Blurred vision. Nature 2002;420:A19, A21, A23.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ghezzi I, Ruggles C. Chankillo: a 2300-year-old solar observatory in coastal Peru. Science 2007;315:1239–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Traag VA, Krings G, Van Dooren P. Significant scales in community structure. Sci Rep 2013;3:2930.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang L, Wang Y, Xu Y, Lei H, Zhao Y, Li H, et al. Metabonomic analysis reveals efficient ameliorating effects of acupoint stimulations on the menopause-caused alterations in mammalian metabolism. Sci Rep 2014;4:3641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ledolter J. Data Mining and Business Analytics with R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Kaltschmitt M, Themelis NJ, Bronicki LY, Söder L, Vega LA, editors. Renewable Energy Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rao RV, Savsani VJ. Applications of Modified Optimization Algorithms to the Unconstrained and Constrained Problems. In: Savsani VJ, editor. Mechanical Design Optimization Using Advanced Optimization Techniques, London: Springer; 2012, p. 69–121.

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]

Andrew E. These Virtual Reality Headsets Make Farmed Chickens Believe They Roam Free. IFLScience 2014.

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. Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tran LN. Low-cost vehicle remote diagnostic system. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Lanchester J. Should We Trash Cash? New York Times 2017:MM18.

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)

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