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

Reichhardt T. Airborne telescope delayed as plane is made ready. Nature. 2001 Jun 14;411(6839):729.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trampert J, van Heijst HJ. Global azimuthal anisotropy in the transition zone. Science. 2002 May 17;296(5571):1297–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen J, Carlson BE, Del Genio AD. Evidence for strengthening of the tropical general circulation in the 1990s. Science. 2002 Feb 1;295(5556):838–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zurbuchen MA, Lake MP, Kohan SA, Leung B, Bouchard LS. Nanodiamond landmarks for subcellular multimodal optical and electron imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Malley C. Bonds Without Borders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Ehnert I, Harry W, Zink KJ, editors. Sustainability and Human Resource Management: Developing Sustainable Business Organizations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. XV, 442 p. (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance).

A chapter in an edited book

Berman DM. Isolation of Pancreatic Islets from Nonhuman Primates. In: Ramírez-Domínguez M, editor. Pancreatic Islet Isolation: From the Mouse to the Clinic. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 57–66. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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. SpaceX Launch Currently A Go. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. High-Containment Laboratories: Recent Incidents of Biosafety Lapses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jul. Report No.: GAO-14-785T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aslanyan AL. Psycho-educational group for family members of adults with a mental health diagnosis: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1993 Dec 26;139.

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