How to format your references using the The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma. 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	Download the output style file
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

Macilwain C. Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed. Nature. 2000;404(6780):799.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dar-Nimrod I, Heine SJ. Exposure to scientific theories affects women’s math performance. Science. 2006;314(5798):435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bogorad IW, Lin TS, Liao JC. Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation. Nature. 2013;502(7473):693-697.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Doshi R, Chen BR, Vibat CRT, Huang N, Lee CW, Chang G. In vitro nanobody discovery for integral membrane protein targets. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Di Stefano M. Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Stockmann R, Meyer W, eds. The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jia G, Chen Y, Wu P. MENN Method Applications for Stock Market Forecasting. In: Sun F, Zhang J, Tan Y, Cao J, Yu W, eds. Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008: 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, Beijing, China, September 24-28, 2008, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2008:30-39.

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 The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma.

Blog post

Andrews R. China Will Launch The World’s First Quantum Satellite This July. IFLScience.

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. Vehicle Safety: Technologies, Challenges, and Research and Development Expenditures for Advanced Air Bags. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sherman CP. The Effect of Head and Heart on Municipal Employee Retention. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2001.

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

Pilon M. Off Without a Hitch. New York Times. November 4, 2013:F1.

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	The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma
ISSN (print)	0973-0508
Scope