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. Fisher L. Avoid major disasters by welcoming minor change. Nature. 2015;527:9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Charbonnel C, Talon S. Astronomy. Mixing a stellar cocktail. Science. 2007;318:922–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bierhaus EB, Chapman CR, Merline WJ. Secondary craters on Europa and implications for cratered surfaces. Nature. 2005;437:1125–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Murata K, Mitsuoka K, Hirai T, Walz T, Agre P, Heymann JB, et al. Structural determinants of water permeation through aquaporin-1. Nature. 2000;407:599–605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cofnas A. Trading Binary Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Lieberman H, Paternò F, Wulf V, editors. End User Development. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Copley B. Temporal Orientation in Conditionals. In: Guéron J, Lecarme J, editors. Time and Modality. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 59–77.

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. Just For You: How To Create Sounds That Only You Can Hear In A Venue. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Telecommunications: Interruptions of Telephone Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Mar. Report No.: RCED-93-79FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Uthe PB. The development of polycationic materials for gene delivery applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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. Barnard A. U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria. New York Times. 2017 Jun 10;A8.

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