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

Offerman SE. Materials science. Microstructures in 4D. Science. 2004 Jul 9;305(5681):190–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun Y, Cao C. Research Funding. Demystifying central government R&D spending in China. Science. 2014 Aug 29;345(6200):1006–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkel T, Serrano M, Blasco MA. The common biology of cancer and ageing. Nature. 2007 Aug 16;448(7155):767–74.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu R, Wang Q, Ding W, Wang C, Hou L, Ma D. Penguins significantly increased phosphine formation and phosphorus contribution in maritime Antarctic soils. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 14;4:7055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ralph D, Graham P. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

Uden L, Tao YH, Yang HC, Ting IH, editors. The 2nd International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. XI, 209 p. (Springer Proceedings in Complexity).

A chapter in an edited book

Coelho J, Silva A, Gomes JP. Parallelization of a Tridimensional Finite Element Program for Structural Behaviour Analysis. In: Lopes L, Žilinskas J, Costan A, Cascella RG, Kecskemeti G, Jeannot E, et al., editors. Euro-Par 2014: Parallel Processing Workshops: Euro-Par 2014 International Workshops, Porto, Portugal, August 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 36–47. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Andrew E. Video: deep-sea showdown between squid and fish [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-deep-sea-showdown-between-squid-and-fish/

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. Information Technology: HUD Needs to Better Define Commitments and Disclose Risks for Modernization Projects in Future Expenditure Plans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Nov. Report No.: GAO-11-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams CD. Playing the Hungarian card: An assessment of radical right impact on Slovak and Hungarian party systems and post-Communist democratic stability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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

Grynbaum MM, Herrman J. Breitbart Gains Voice in White House. New York Times. 2016 Nov 14;B1.

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