How to format your references using the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences. 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

Al-Hashimi HM (2010) Biochemistry. Exciting structures. Science 329:1295–1296

A journal article with 2 authors

Muijres FT, Dickinson MH (2014) Bird flight: Fly with a little flap from your friends. Nature 505:295–296

A journal article with 3 authors

Lustig RH, Schmidt LA, Brindis CD (2012) Public health: The toxic truth about sugar. Nature 482:27–29

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hagedorn M, Rohde KH, Russell DG, Soldati T (2009) Infection by tubercular mycobacteria is spread by nonlytic ejection from their amoeba hosts. Science 323:1729–1733

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp M (2011) Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bennett A (2016) Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Silva ÉR, Bartholo R, Proença D (2015) Engineering Brazil: National Engineering Capability at Stake. In: Christensen SH, Didier C, Jamison A, et al (eds) International Perspectives on Engineering Education: Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 95–104

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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Corals Eat By Stirring Up Turbulent Vortexes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/corals-eat-stirring-turbulent-vortexes/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1969) Deficiencies in the Recording and Reporting of Contractor-Held, Government-Owned Property, Goddard Space Flight Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrada MI (2012) A community risk assessment of the 90806 zip code. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Stewart JB (2017) Tough Times For Disciples Of Ayn Rand. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences
Abbreviation	Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India Sect. A
ISSN (print)	0369-8203
ISSN (online)	2250-1762
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy