How to format your references using the Pakistan Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pakistan Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. 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

Hill M. Perspective: Be clear about the real risks. Nature. 2015 Sep 24;525(7570):S14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saavedra S, Stouffer DB. “Disentangling nestedness” disentangled. Nature. 2013 Aug 22;500(7463):E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke RC, Poo MM, Dan Y. Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature. 2005 Mar 10;434(7030):221–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Deng W, Guo J, Hu J, Zhang H. Comment on “100% accuracy in automatic face recognition.” Science. 2008 Aug 15;321(5891):912; author reply 912.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Haupt RL. Timed Arrays. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Ringeisen BR, Spargo BJ, Wu PK, editors. Cell and Organ Printing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. XIV, 260 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lau KC, Curtiss LA, Chan MKY, Greeley JP. Atomistic and First Principles: Computational Studies of LiO2 Batteries. In: Imanishi N, Luntz AC, Bruce P, editors. The Lithium Air Battery: Fundamentals. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 159–77.

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 Pakistan Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

Blog post

Andrews R. There’s A Rather Unusual Way To Fix Your Phone If You’ve Dunked It In Water [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/theres-a-rather-unusual-way-to-fix-your-phone-if-youve-dunked-it-in-water/

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. Rail Safety: Improved Human Capital Planning Could Address Emerging Safety Oversight Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Dec. Report No.: GAO-14-85.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sydow K. A life review and Memory Album program to enhance family communication in assisted living [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Norton MB. At War With the Shakers. New York Times. 2010 Sep 19;BR20.

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	Pakistan Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
ISSN (print)	0257-4985
Scope