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

Bobrow M. Regulate research at the animal-human interface. Nature. 2011;475(7357):448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leslie NR, Brunton VG. Cell biology. Where is PTEN? Science. 2013;341(6144):355-356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarrete A, van Schaik CP, Isler K. Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature. 2011;480(7375):91-93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Anderson RM, Latorre-Esteves M, Neves AR, et al. Yeast life-span extension by calorie restriction is independent of NAD fluctuation. Science. 2003;302(5653):2124-2126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pashley RM, Karaman ME. Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Vashchenko V. System Level ESD Protection. (Scholz M, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcus DA, Deodhar A. Assessment and Diagnosis. In: Marcus DA, ed. Fibromyalgia: A Practical Clinical Guide. Springer; 2011:41-51.

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

Andrew E. New Mapping Effort To Help Battle Lyme Disease. IFLScience. Published May 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-mapping-effort-help-battle-lyme-disease/

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. Guidelines for Survey of the Pricing of Negotiated Noncompetitive DOD Prime Contracts With McDonnell Douglas and Raytheon and NASA Prime Contracts With General Electric. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aldridge KN. The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. For Now, and Possibly This Year, Talk of a Vacancy on the Court Appears to Be Mere Talk. New York Times. October 28, 2005:A18.

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

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