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

Purnell B (2008) New release: the complete guide to organ repair. Introduction. Science 322:1489

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyman SE, Fenton WS (2003) Medicine. What are the right targets for psychopharmacology? Science 299:350–351

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Matteo T, Springel V, Hernquist L (2005) Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies. Nature 433:604–607

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cavey M, Rauzi M, Lenne P-F, Lecuit T (2008) A two-tiered mechanism for stabilization and immobilization of E-cadherin. Nature 453:751–756

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen GA, Jackson P (2005) Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Guthoff RF (2006) Atlas of Confocal Laser Scanning In-vivo Microscopy in Ophthalmology: Principles and Applications in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gore RM, Silvers R (2014) Infectious, Inflammatory, and Ischemic Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. In: Hodler J, Schulthess GK von, Kubik-Huch RA, Zollikofer CL (eds) Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques. Springer, Milano, pp 38–46

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) The Actual Building Blocks of Planets Have Been Spotted for the First Time Ever. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/actual-building-blocks-planets-have-been-spotted-first-time-ever/. 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 (2010) Business Systems Modernization: Scope and Content of DOD’s Congressional Report and Executive Oversight of Investments Need to Improve. 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

Wang E (2017) Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Greenhouse L (2005) A Ceremonial Start to the Session as the Supreme Court Welcomes a New Chief Justice. New York Times A25

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

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