How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons citation style

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

Kostelecký VA. Precision measurement: The magnetic proton. Nature. 2014 May 29;509(7502):571–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pandey A, Guyot-Sionnest P. Slow electron cooling in colloidal quantum dots. Science. 2008 Nov 7;322(5903):929–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloxham J, Zatman S, Dumberry M. The origin of geomagnetic jerks. Nature. 2002 Nov 7;420(6911):65–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Foresti D, Sambatakakis G, Bottan S, Poulikakos D. Morphing surfaces enable acoustophoretic contactless transport of ultrahigh-density matter in air. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 11;3:3176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI. Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Waksman G, editor. Proteomics and Protein-Protein Interactions: Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and Drug Design. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005. VIII, 323 p. (Protein Reviews; vol. 3).

A chapter in an edited book

Shkubulyani O. Plato’s Teaching about “Living Creature.” In: Tymieniecka AT, editor. Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos Book Two: The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 45–60. (Analecta Husserliana).

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 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons.

Blog post

Evans K. 22 Signs You Might Be A Narcissist. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

Government Accountability Office. Commercial Aviation: Programs and Options for Providing Air Service to Small Communities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-793T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhao J. Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 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

Brantley B. Whistling a Happy Tune in a Perverse Universe. New York Times. 2017 Feb 14;C7.

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	Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Abbreviation	J. Indian Assoc. Pediatr. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0971-9261
ISSN (online)	1998-3891
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Surgery