How to format your references using the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological 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 B: Biological 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

Dalton R (2000) Los Alamos labs are safe from fire. Nature 405:264

A journal article with 2 authors

England PC, Katz RF (2010) Melting above the anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs. Nature 467:700–703

A journal article with 3 authors

Nussbaumer AD, Fisher CR, Bright M (2006) Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent tubeworms. Nature 441:345–348

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Szufnarowska J, Rohlfing KJ, Fawcett C, Gredebäck G (2014) Is ostension any more than attention? Sci Rep 4:5304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boussabaine A (2013) Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Jain S, Munos R, Stephan F, Zeugmann T (2013) Algorithmic Learning Theory: 24th International Conference, ALT 2013, Singapore, October 6-9, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wachnik B (2016) Moral Hazard in IT Project Completion. An Analysis of Supplier and Client Behavior in Polish and German Enterprises. In: Ziemba E (ed) Information Technology for Management: Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, ISM 2015 and AITM 2015, Lodz, Poland, September 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–90

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 B: Biological Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Major Improvement To Drug-Free Fertility Treatment. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Freight Transportation: Strategies Needed to Address Planning and Financing Limitations. 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

Ulaganathan MN (2016) Building a volunteered geographic information system (VGIS): A mobile application for disaster management. 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

Murphy MJO (2015) Remembering the Phonograph. New York Times C22

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 B: Biological Sciences
Abbreviation	Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sect. B Biol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0369-8211
ISSN (online)	2250-1746
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Environmental Science