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

Cumming BG. An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate primary visual cortex. Nature. 2002;418(6898):633-636.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langlais B, Amit H. Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science. 2008;321(5897):1784-1785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iyengar VK, Reeve HK, Eisner T. Paternal inheritance of a female moth’s mating preference. Nature. 2002;419(6909):830-832.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaplanis J, Gordon A, Shor T, et al. Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives. Science. 2018;360(6385):171-175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius V. Integral and Measure. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Yu PS, Han J, Faloutsos C, eds. Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Vlachou A, Doulkeridis C, Nørvåg K, Kotidis Y. Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. In: Doulkeridis C, Nørvåg K, Kotidis Y, eds. Peer-to-Peer Query Processing over Multidimensional Data. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:31-42.

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

Hale T. These Are Each State’s Most Commonly Misspelled Word On Google. IFLScience. May 27, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/these-are-each-states-most-commonly-misspelled-words-google/

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. Performance and Accountability: Transportation Challenges Facing Congress and the Department of Transportation. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Renteria Y. Respite Services for Post-Adoption Families Transitioning from the Child Welfare System: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Schilling MK. The Accidental Tourist. New York Times. May 9, 2017:M2106.

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