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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Virology. 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. Priem J. Scholarship: Beyond the paper. Nature. 2013;495:437–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pfisterer AB, Schmid B. Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning. Nature. 2002;416:84–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dominguez P, Jacobson AG, Jefferies RPS. Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature. 2002;417:841–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Aung L-H-H, Yin R-X, Wu J-Z, Wu D-F, Wang W, Li H. Association between the MLX interacting protein-like, BUD13 homolog and zinc finger protein 259 gene polymorphisms and serum lipid levels. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mastro M. Financial Derivative and Energy Market Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Zermelo E. Ernst Zermelo - Collected Works/Gesammelte Werke: Volume I - Set Theory, Miscellanea / Band I - Mengenlehre, Varia. Ebbinghaus H-D, Fraser CG, Kanamori A, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Davis M. Diophantine Equations and Computation. In: Calude CS, Costa JF, Dershowitz N, Freire E, Rozenberg G, editors. Unconventional Computation: 8th International Conference, UC 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 4–5.

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 Virology.

Blog post

1. Davis J. FDA Approves The Installation Of “Stomach Taps” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-approves-the-installation-of-stomach-taps/. 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. Drug Abuse: Research on Treatment May Not Address Current Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Sep. Report No.: HRD-90-114.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krishna S. Pediatric Pal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Eligon J, Mather V. Mayweather Overcomes McGregor in the 10th Round. New York Times. 2017 Aug 26;SP11.

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 Virology
ISSN (print)	0970-2822
ISSN (online)	0974-0120
Scope