How to format your references using the Sadhana citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sadhana. 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

Ohashi, Pamela S. 2002. Immunology. Exposing thy self. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 1348–1349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kress, Tracy L., and Christine Guthrie. 2006. Molecular biology. Accurate RNA siting and splicing gets help from a DEK-hand. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1886–1887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chevrier, Vincent, Francois Poulet, and Jean-Pierre Bibring. 2007. Early geochemical environment of Mars as determined from thermodynamics of phyllosilicates. Nature 448: 60–63.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Meyers, D., Swarnakamal Mukherjee, J-G Cheng, S. Middey, J-S Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, B. A. Gray, J. W. Freeland, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and J. Chakhalian. 2013. Zhang-Rice physics and anomalous copper states in A-site ordered perovskites. Scientific reports 3: 1834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Budisa, Nediljko. 2005. Engineering the Genetic Code. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Wang, Jun, Zhang Yi, Jacek M. Zurada, Bao-Liang Lu, and Hujun Yin, ed. 2006. Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006: Third International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, May 28 - June 1, 2006, Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 3971. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Castro, L. P., H. Fujiwara, T. Qian, and S. Saitoh. 2014. How to Catch Smoothing Properties and Analyticity of Functions by Computers? In Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Interdisciplinary Research, ed. Panos M. Pardalos and Themistocles M. Rassias, 101–116. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Sadhana.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Rare Antibody Found To Neutralize 98% Of All HIV Strains. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 17.

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. 1992. National Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Future Research and Development Efforts. NSIAD-93-71. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blumenfeld, Diana B. 2015. Policy Making and the U.S. Response to Global HIV/AIDS. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Wagner, James. 2016. Giants Are Said to Set Record (For Now) for Closer. New York Times, December 5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ohashi 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ohashi 2002; Kress and Guthrie 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kress and Guthrie 2006)
Three or more authors: (Meyers et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sadhana
ISSN (print)	0256-2499
ISSN (online)	0973-7677
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