How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine citation style

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

Fröbisch J. Paleontology. On dental occlusion and saber teeth. Science. 2011 Mar 25;331(6024):1525–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purvis A, Hector A. Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature. 2000 May 11;405(6783):212–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke M, Matzke AJ, Kooter JM. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1080–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Happel P, Möller K, Schwering NK, Dietzel ID. Migrating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells swell prior to soma dislocation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitajima M. Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Cristiani E. Multiscale Modeling of Pedestrian Dynamics. Piccoli B, Tosin A, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. XVI, 260 p. 62 illus., 45 illus. in color. (MS&A, Modeling, Simulation and Applications; vol. 12).

A chapter in an edited book

Greiner A, Fincke B. Government Debt and Human Capital Formation. In: Fincke B, editor. Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 205–32.

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 Critical Care Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews R. The Earth’s Mantle Is Hotter Than Anyone Previously Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earths-mantle-hotter-anyone-previously-thought/

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. NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Apr. Report No.: GAO-05-492R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hansell L. Perceptions of Supervisor Ethical Behavior by Psychology Interns [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Ganz C, Leland J. Chris Cornell, Frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave, Dies at 52. New York Times. 2017 May 18;B14.

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 Critical Care Medicine
Abbreviation	Indian J. Crit. Care Med.
ISSN (print)	0972-5229
ISSN (online)	1998-359X
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine