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

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

Müller UK. Physiology. Fish ’n flag. Science. 2003;302(5650):1511-1512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickman C, Bickmore WA. Transcription. Flashing a light on the spatial organization of transcription. Science. 2013;341(6146):621-622.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Galliard JF, Clobert J, Ferrière R. Physical performance and Darwinian fitness in lizards. Nature. 2004;432(7016):502-505.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blasco R, Finlayson C, Rosell J, et al. The earliest pigeon fanciers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi ZJ. Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Buffone MG, ed. Sperm Acrosome Biogenesis and Function During Fertilization. Vol 220. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Danielescu A, Savio-Ramos C, Sadauskas J. Constructing an Embodied Interaction for Concept Mapping. In: Stephanidis C, ed. HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2013:23-27.

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 Tuberculosis.

Blog post

Andrew D. Freaks And Uniques: Evolution’s Weirdest Creatures. IFLScience. July 26, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/freaks-and-uniques-evolutions-weirdest-creatures/

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. Mission Support Project: User Perceptions on Computer Use and Network Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Giuseffi FG. Investigation of the Influence of the Socratic Method on Leadership Skills among JROTC Cadet Leaders at a Military Boarding School. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University; 2014.

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

Wingfield N, de la MERCED MJ. Amazon to Buy Whole Foods For $13 Billion. New York Times. June 16, 2017:A1.

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 Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Indian J. Tuberc.
ISSN (print)	0019-5707
Scope	Infectious Diseases