How to format your references using the Journal of Indian College of Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Indian College of Cardiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Benton MJ. The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time. Science. 2009;323(5915):728-732.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donia MS, Fischbach MA. HUMAN MICROBIOTA. Small molecules from the human microbiota. Science. 2015;349(6246):1254766.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paige JS, Wu KY, Jaffrey SR. RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein. Science. 2011;333(6042):642-646.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Müller CM, Pejcic B, Esteban L, Delle Piane C, Raven M, Mizaikoff B. Infrared attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy: an innovative strategy for analyzing mineral components in energy relevant systems. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Sinusoidal Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

McNeill F, Durnescu I, Butter R, eds. Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Grimm S, Watzke M, Hubauer T, Cescolini F. Embedded $\mathcal{EL}$ + Reasoning on Programmable Logic Controllers. In: Cudré-Mauroux P, Heflin J, Sirin E, et al., eds. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012: 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:66-81.

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 College of Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Becoming A Father Can “Rewire” A Man’s Brain. IFLScience.

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. Global Positioning System: A Comprehensive Assessment of Potential Options and Related Costs Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown O. Business and IT Leaders’ Behavioral Affects on Alignment and Project Outcome: A Comparative Leadership Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

Gurley G. Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics. New York Times. November 15, 2016:D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 College of Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Ind. Coll. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1561-8811
Scope