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

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

Stone R. EASTERN EUROPE: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia. Science. 2000 Oct 27;290(5492):690–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz RM, Williams CJ. The science of ART. Science. 2002 Jun 21;296(5576):2188–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang K, Zhang Y, Wang S. Enhancing thermoelectric properties of organic composites through hierarchical nanostructures. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 13;3:3448.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi D, Moneck M, Liu X, Oh SJ, Kagan CR, Coffey KR, et al. Crystallographic anisotropy of the resistivity size effect in single crystal tungsten nanowires. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer E. Design for Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Feng R, Lee WS, Sato Y, editors. Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. XVI, 503 p. 54 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Liang Y, Naqvi SM, Wang W, Chambers JA. Frequency Domain Blind Source Separation Based on Independent Vector Analysis with a Multivariate Generalized Gaussian Source Prior. In: Naik GR, Wang W, editors. Blind Source Separation: Advances in Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 131–50. (Signals and Communication Technology).

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 Cancer.

Blog post

Davis J. Why Are Pandas Black And White? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. School Finance: Per-Pupil Spending Differences between Selected Inner City and Suburban Schools Varied by Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Dec. Report No.: GAO-03-234.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mardakhanian A. Blended CME, Inc. A business plan [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Kishkovsky S. Critics See Kremlin’s Hand in Charges Against Ex-K.G.B. Agent. New York Times. 2004 Dec 12;127.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Journal of Cancer
Abbreviation	Indian J. Cancer
ISSN (print)	0019-509X
ISSN (online)	1998-4774
Scope	Oncology