How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences citation style

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

Venter J C. 2010. Multiple personal genomes await. Nature 464(7289): 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek A M and Manga M. 2002. The influence of a chemical boundary layer on the fixity, spacing and lifetime of mantle plumes. Nature 418(6899): 760–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Hoof C, Baert K and Witvrouw A. 2004. Physics. The best materials for tiny, clever sensors. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5698): 986–987.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schroeder B C, Waldegger S, Fehr S, Bleich M, Warth R, Greger R and Jentsch T J. 2000. A constitutively open potassium channel formed by KCNQ1 and KCNE3. Nature 403(6766): 196–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ytterdal T, Cheng Y and Fjeldly T A. 2003. Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Monaghan J. 2016. Tools and Mathematics. Trouche L and Borwein J M(Eds). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdul-Latip S F, Reyhanitabar M R, Susilo W and Seberry J. 2010. On the Security of NOEKEON against Side Channel Cube Attacks. Information Security, Practice and Experience: 6th International Conference, ISPEC 2010, Seoul, Korea, May 12-13, 2010. Proceedings, pp45–55. Kwak J, Deng R H, Won Y and Wang G(Eds). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Journal of Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Comet 67P Smells Like Cat Pee, Almonds, And Rotten Eggs. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-67p-smells-like-cat-pee-almonds-and-rotten-eggs/ (last accessed 30 October 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. 2011. Aviation Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Persist in Meeting the Screening Mandate for Air Cargo.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Decena M. 2010. What variables affect Peritoneal Dialysis growth? Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Protess B and Eder S. 2017. Trump Group Drops Deal With the ‘Turkish Trump.’ New York Times, 13 April, page A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Venter 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jellinek and Manga 2002, Venter 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jellinek and Manga 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schroeder et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
ISSN (print)	0019-5022
ISSN (online)	2394-3319
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