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

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

1. Ueda K. Chemistry. To be or not to be localized. Science. 2008;320:884–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Singleton AB, Traynor BJ. Genetics. For complex disease genetics, collaboration drives progress. Science. 2015;347:1422–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Scholz M, Lo C-C, Chain PSG. Improved assemblies using a source-agnostic pipeline for MetaGenomic Assembly by Merging (MeGAMerge) of contigs. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6480.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li Y, Balédent V, Yu G, Barišić N, Hradil K, Mole RA, et al. Hidden magnetic excitation in the pseudogap phase of a high-T(c) superconductor. Nature. 2010;468:283–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Heuer A. Der perfekte Tipp. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Suh YJ, Berndt J, Ohnita Y, Kim BH, Lee H, editors. Real and Complex Submanifolds: Daejeon, Korea, August 2014. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Argenyi Z, Jokinen CH. Benign Cutaneous Neoplasms with Peripheral Nerve Differentiation. In: Jokinen CH, editor. Cutaneous Neural Neoplasms: A Practical Guide. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 37–82.

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 Gastroenterology.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. One Year On From New Horizons, We Spoke To The Man Behind The Daring Mission To Pluto [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-year-on-from-new-horizons-we-spoke-to-the-man-behind-the-daring-mission-to-pluto/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Technology at IRS: Present and Planned. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Sep. Report No.: GGD-83-103.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Paustian ME. Evaluating competition between the non-native slug Arion subfuscus and the native slug Philomycus carolinianus [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Greenhouse L. Guantánamo Detainees Enjoy Historic Protections, Administration Says. New York Times. 2007 Oct 11;A29.

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 Journal of Gastroenterology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Gastroenterol.
ISSN (print)	0254-8860
ISSN (online)	0975-0711
Scope	Gastroenterology