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

Corbyn Z. Statistics: a growing global burden. Nature. 2014;510(7506):S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang Y, Hekimi S. Mitochondrial dysfunction and longevity in animals: Untangling the knot. Science. 2015;350(6265):1204-1207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takayanagi M, Kurisaki I, Nagaoka M. Non-site-specific allosteric effect of oxygen on human hemoglobin under high oxygen partial pressure. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hershkovitz I, Duval M, Grün R, et al. Response to Comment on “The earliest modern humans outside Africa.” Science. 2018;362(6413).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stauffer HB. Contemporary Bayesian and Frequentist Statistical Research Methods for Natural Resource Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Geradts ZJMH, Franke KY, Veenman CJ, eds. Computational Forensics: Third International Workshop, IWCF 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 13-14, 2009. Proceedings. Vol 5718. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Motizuki K, Ido H, Itoh T, Morifuji M. Electronic Band Structure and Magnetism of NiAs-Type Compounds. In: Ido H, Itoh T, Morifuji M, eds. Electronic Structure and Magnetism of 3d-Transition Metal Pnictides. Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer; 2010:75-126.

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

O`Callaghan J. These Are Actual Images Of Sunspots On A Star 181 Light-Years Away. IFLScience. May 12, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/sunspots-imaged-distant-star-reveal-strange-erratic-behavior/

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. Aviation: Issues Associated With the Theft of Stock Used to Create Airline Tickets. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harper NR. The Relationship between Worry Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and True Memory, False Memory, and Metamemory. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Branch J. Fans, Please Rise (No, Not for Beer). New York Times. October 2, 2017:D1.

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