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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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.
Tyndall G. Chemistry. Vibrational excitation can control tropospheric chemistry. Science. 2012;337(6098):1046-1047.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Moore SL, Wilson K. Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals. Science. 2002;297(5589):2015-2018.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
El-Ali J, Sorger PK, Jensen KF. Cells on chips. Nature. 2006;442(7101):403-411.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Yang G, Liu L, Lv F, Wang S. Conjugated polyelectrolyte materials for promoting progenitor cell growth without serum. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Seagal ZM, Surnina OM. Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.
An edited book
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Kim CS, Randow C, Sano T, eds. Hybrid and Hierarchical Composite Materials. Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
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Su C, Tian J, Chen Y. An Adjective-Based Embodied Knowledge Net. In: Zong C, Nie JY, Zhao D, Feng Y, eds. Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: Third CCF Conference, NLPCC 2014, Shenzhen, China, December 5-9, 2014. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2014:46-53.

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
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Hamilton K. The Largest Living Thing On Earth Is Mostly Hidden From View. IFLScience. Published May 11, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-largest-living-thing-on-earth-is-mostly-hidden-from-view/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Operations of and Outlook for the Highway Trust Fund. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Lee MYL. The Intellectual Origins of Lin Yutang’s Cultural Internationalism, 1928–1938. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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
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Koblin J. Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites. New York Times. September 18, 2016:C1.

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 titleJournal of Indian College of Cardiology
AbbreviationJ. Ind. Coll. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)1561-8811
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