Dear Sir/Madam, This is a valid suggestion. Some of the Indian LIS journals have their own custom-made citation styles which often requires lot of time from the authors side to prepare manually.  If as Mr. Vimal Kumar has suggested for following established international standard citation styles such as APA, MLA or Chicago style of citations or other similar citations styles it is easier for authors to import or create citations using online reference management tools without spending much of time in preparing them. Not only Indian LIS journals but many universities in India doesn't have clear policy in preparing doctoral dissertations and the kind of citation styles should be followed in citing references. It is high time that Indian journals and academic institutions should follow international standards of citations to ease the time involved in preparing references for manuscript and dissertations.  In fact, we long back discussed this issue in an article published in Annals of Library and Information Studies authored by Prof. N.S. Harinarayana, Dr. Chikka Manju and Myself. If, you are interested in the article please visit the following link:https://tinyurl.com/y2zta4y5  ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.Librarian Mysore On Wednesday, 11 September, 2019, 10:57:47 pm IST, Vimal Kumar V. <vimal0212@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Friends, Indian scholarly journals do not follow standard citation styles. Journals in Library and Information Sciences also follow custom citation styles. Most of the journals ask the authors to follow their custom styles. Custom styles eat the time of authors while preparing references. Journal publishers should follow any standard styles for manuscripts. Social Science journals can follow standard styles like APA. Reference management software like Mendeley and Zotero support almost all standard citation styles. I request all journal publishers in LIS to follow standard citation styles and save the time of authors. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala, India-686 560 My Home Page: http://www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://dspacegeek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White