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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Relman DA. Microbiology. Undernutrition--looking within for answers. Science. 2013;339(6119):530-532.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Bilham R, England P. Plateau “pop-up” in the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature. 2001;410(6830):806-809.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Ishikawa H, Ma Z, Barber GN. STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature. 2009;461(7265):788-792.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Tesmer VM, Kawano T, Shankaranarayanan A, Kozasa T, Tesmer JJG. Snapshot of activated G proteins at the membrane: the Galphaq-GRK2-Gbetagamma complex. Science. 2005;310(5754):1686-1690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Belmont DP. Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2011.
An edited book
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Brun del Re R, ed. Minimally Invasive Breast Biopsies. Vol 173. Springer; 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
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González-Candelas L, Alamar S, Ballester AR, et al. Global Regulation of Genes in Citrus Fruit in Response to the Postharvest Pathogen Penicillium digitatum. In: Prusky D, Gullino ML, eds. Postharvest Pathology. Springer Netherlands; 2010:57-67.

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
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O`Callaghan J. NASA Debuts New Planet Imager To Look At Worlds Around Other Stars. IFLScience. Published February 3, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-debuts-new-planet-imager-to-look-at-worlds-around-other-stars/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Railroad Safety: More FRA Oversight Needed to Ensure Rail Safety in Region 2. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Paik Y. Redefining Multidisciplinary Teams: An Institutional Approach. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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
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Davey M. Shooting of Black Woman Stirs Racial Tensions Around Detroit. New York Times. November 15, 2013:A11.

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

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