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 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

Binney JJ. Astronomy. Triangulating the galaxy. Science. 2006 Jan 6;311(5757):44–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aβmann M, Bayer M. Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1545.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg JW, Jones CG, Dawson TE. Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City. Nature. 2003 Jul 10;424(6945):183–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Galanty Y, Belotserkovskaya R, Coates J, Polo S, Miller KM, Jackson SP. Mammalian SUMO E3-ligases PIAS1 and PIAS4 promote responses to DNA double-strand breaks. Nature. 2009 Dec 17;462(7275):935–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Panek W, Wentworth T. Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Sonneveld C. Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops. Voogt W, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. XV, 431 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Khouzani MHR, Pham V, Cid C. Strategic Discovery and Sharing of Vulnerabilities in Competitive Environments. In: Poovendran R, Saad W, editors. Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec 2014, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 6-7, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–78. (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 Lung India.

Blog post

Andrew E. Strangest Genitals In The Animal Kingdom [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strangest-genitals-animal-kingdom/

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. Space Acquisitions: Challenges Facing DOD as it Changes Approaches to Space Acquisitions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-471T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gustus CH. E-Mentoring an Educator in a State School for the Deaf: An Action Research Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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

Sisario B. Social Network Aims at the Biggest Fans of Live Music. New York Times. 2016 Aug 24;B4.

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