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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 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

1. Bourzac K. Spiders: Web of intrigue. Nature. 2015;519:S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Arnold DH, Johnston A. Motion-induced spatial conflict. Nature. 2003;425:181–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Erez E, Fass D, Bibi E. How intramembrane proteases bury hydrolytic reactions in the membrane. Nature. 2009;459:371–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Iwabu M, Yamauchi T, Okada-Iwabu M, Sato K, Nakagawa T, Funata M, et al. Adiponectin and AdipoR1 regulate PGC-1alpha and mitochondria by Ca(2+) and AMPK/SIRT1. Nature. 2010;464:1313–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sedlacek HH, Sapienza AM, Eid V. Ways to Successful Strategies in Drug Research and Development. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2008.

An edited book

1. Cheyne C, Worrall J, editors. Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kubler S, Derigent W, Rondeau É, Thomas A, Främling K. Embedded Data on Intelligent Products – Impact on Real-Time Applications. In: Matera M, Rossi G, editors. Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 25–34.

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 Pediatrics.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. How To Find An Exoplanet (Part 1) [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-find-an-exoplanet-part-1/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Basis Used by the Office of Education for Classifying Contracts as Either Competitive or Noncompetitive. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Mar. Report No.: B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Grannis KS. Secular spiritual quests in modern American novels, 1922–1960 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

1. Ortved J. Bottoms Up: It’s Her Brand. New York Times. 2016 Oct 6;D7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Indian J. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)	0019-5456
ISSN (online)	0973-7693
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health