How to format your references using the Lung India citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lung India. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Atchley WR. Retrospective. Walter M. Fitch (1929-2011). Science. 2011 May 13;332(6031):804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Canfield DE, Kump LR. Geochemistry. Carbon cycle makeover. Science. 2013 Feb 1;339(6119):533–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani J, Andersen DS, Léopold P. Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science. 2012 May 4;336(6081):582–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hennige SJ, Morrison CL, Form AU, Büscher J, Kamenos NA, Roberts JM. Self-recognition in corals facilitates deep-sea habitat engineering. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 27;4:6782.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli D. IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Garcia E. Regulated Open Multi-Agent Systems (ROMAS): A Multi-Agent Approach for Designing Normative Open Systems. Giret A, Botti V, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. VII, 151 p. 57 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Khan RA. Introduction: The Use of Extrathecal CSF Shunts, Optional vs Mandatory, Unavoidable Complications. In: Di Rocco C, Turgut M, Jallo G, Martínez-Lage JF, editors. Complications of CSF Shunting in Hydrocephalus: Prevention, Identification, and Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 75–80.

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 Lung India.

Blog post

Luntz S. Wind Farms Are Probably Good For Nearby Crops [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/wind-farms-are-probably-good-for-nearby-crops/

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. Job Training Partnership Act: Services and Outcomes for Participants With Differing Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Jun. Report No.: HRD-89-52.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Little K. Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

Chavers L, Zissu A. THE ORIGINALS. New York Times. 2005 Oct 9;6136.

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	Lung India
Abbreviation	Lung India
ISSN (print)	0970-2113
ISSN (online)	0974-598X
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine