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

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

Cui W. Astronomy. Very energetic gamma rays from microblazars. Science. 2005 Jul 29;309(5735):714–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Field J, Brace S. Pre-social benefits of extended parental care. Nature. 2004 Apr 8;428(6983):650–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rankenburg K, Brandon AD, Neal CR. Neodymium isotope evidence for a chondritic composition of the Moon. Science. 2006 Jun 2;312(5778):1369–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chavez FP, Ryan J, Lluch-Cota SE, Niquen C M. From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean. Science. 2003 Jan 10;299(5604):217–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silva Elipe MV. LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Anagnostopoulos CD, Nihoyannopoulos P, Bax JJ, Wall E van der, editors. Noninvasive Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia. London: Springer; 2006. XVIII, 314 p. 128 illus., 45 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Badii A, Bagnoli F, Balazs B, Castellani T, D’Orazio D, Ferri F, et al. Collective Awareness Platforms and Digital Social Innovation Mediating Consensus Seeking in Problem Situations. In: Bagnoli F, Satsiou A, Stavrakakis I, Nesi P, Pacini G, Welp Y, et al., editors. Internet Science: Third International Conference, INSCI 2016, Florence, Italy, September 12-14, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 55–65. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Plastic Surgery.

Blog post

Taub B. Medical Examiner’s Report Shows Prince Died After Overdosing On Painkiller That’s 80 Times Stronger Than Morphine [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medical-examiner-s-report-shows-prince-died-after-overdosing-painkiller-80-times-stronger-morphine/

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. Information Technology: Challenges Remain for VA’s Sharing of Electronic Health Records with DOD. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Mar. Report No.: GAO-09-427T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choi YJ. Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2003.

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

Chira S. New Era After O’Reilly? Women Aren’t So Sure. New York Times. 2017 Apr 20;B7.

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 Plastic Surgery
Abbreviation	Indian J. Plast. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0970-0358
ISSN (online)	1998-376X
Scope	Surgery