How to format your references using the Indian Geotechnical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Geotechnical Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Ho T-L (2004) PHYSICS. Arrival of the fermion superfluid. Science 305:1114–1115

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilboa L, Lehmann R (2006) Soma-germline interactions coordinate homeostasis and growth in the Drosophila gonad. Nature 443:97–100

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaillard F, Scaillet B, Arndt NT (2011) Atmospheric oxygenation caused by a change in volcanic degassing pressure. Nature 478:229–232

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Choudhuri K, Wiseman D, Brown MH, et al (2005) T-cell receptor triggering is critically dependent on the dimensions of its peptide-MHC ligand. Nature 436:578–582

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLeish B (2010) Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ring J, Przybilla B, Ruzicka T (2006) Handbook of Atopic Eczema, Second Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sitdikova GF, Zefirov AL (2012) Gasotransmitters in Regulation of Neuromuscular Transmission. In: Hermann A, Sitdikova GF, Weiger TM (eds) Gasotransmitters: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 139–161

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 Indian Geotechnical Journal.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Mining The Moon For Rocket Fuel To Get Us To Mars. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1988) Reserve Training: An Alternative to the Active Army Education Program for National Guard Technicians. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rogers S (2014) Teacher Induction Programs: How Key Components Influence Teacher Retention Rates in Rural School Districts. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Paulson M (2017) ‘Hamilton’ Tries New Tactic to Battle Bots and Scalpers. New York Times C5

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	Indian Geotechnical Journal
ISSN (print)	0971-9555
ISSN (online)	2277-3347
Scope