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. Declercq G. Comment on “How science survived: medieval manuscripts’ ‘demography’ and classic texts’ extinction.” Science. 2005;310:1618; author reply 1618.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Douglas T, Young M. Viruses: making friends with old foes. Science. 2006;312:873–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Davé UP, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG. Gene therapy insertional mutagenesis insights. Science. 2004;303:333.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Michler P, Imamoglu A, Mason MD, Carson PJ, Strouse GF, Buratto SK. Quantum correlation among photons from a single quantum dot at room temperature. Nature. 2000;406:968–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Srivastava SP. Developments in Lubricant Technology. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Siegert G, Förster K, Chan-Olmsted SM, Ots M, editors. Handbook of Media Branding. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhao F, Dai FF. Design and Analysis of A Low Power QVCO with Capacitive-Coupling Technique. In: Dai FF, editor. Low-Noise Low-Power Design for Phase-Locked Loops: Multi-Phase High-Performance Oscillators. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 67–94.

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. Hamilton K. 8 Diet Myths – Busted! [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/8-diet-myths-busted/

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. Higher Education: Multiple Higher Education Tax Incentives Create Opportunities for Taxpayers to Make Costly Mistakes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 May. Report No.: GAO-08-717T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gornto JS. The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2009.

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. Bernstein N. Medicaid Shift Fuels Rush for Profitable Clients. New York Times. 2014 May 9;A1.

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