How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons citation style

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

Crow JM. Microbiome: That healthy gut feeling. Nature. 2011 Dec 21;480(7378):S88-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Churchman LS, Weissman JS. Nascent transcript sequencing visualizes transcription at nucleotide resolution. Nature. 2011 Jan 20;469(7330):368–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim JH, Haule K, Kotliar G. Modeling the localized-to-itinerant electronic transition in the heavy fermion system CeIrIn5. Science. 2007 Dec 7;318(5856):1615–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Anderson RM, Bitterman KJ, Wood JG, Medvedik O, Sinclair DA. Nicotinamide and PNC1 govern lifespan extension by calorie restriction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature. 2003 May 8;423(6936):181–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémond Y, Ahzi S, Baniassadi M, Garmestani H. Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Piazolo F, Felderer M, editors. Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems: ERP Future 2012 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, November 2012, Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XV, 300 p. 82 illus. (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation; vol. 4).

A chapter in an edited book

Jha KR, Singh G. Ring Resonator-Integrated Hemi-elliptical Lens Antenna. In: Singh G, editor. Terahertz Planar Antennas for Next Generation Communication. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 83–105.

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 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons.

Blog post

Andrew E. Oceans in imminent danger of losing a quarter of all sharks and stingrays [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oceans-imminent-danger-losing-quarter-all-sharks-and-stingrays/

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Justify Further Investment in Its Oceanic Display System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-92-80.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Gustines GG. A Bird? A Plane? La Borinqueña! New York Times. 2016 Jun 12;MB4.

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	Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Abbreviation	J. Indian Assoc. Pediatr. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0971-9261
ISSN (online)	1998-3891
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Surgery