How to format your references using the Australian Orthoptic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Orthoptic Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Collins FS. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Faces of the genome. Science. 2011 Feb 4;331(6017):546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang LV, Hu S. Photoacoustic tomography: in vivo imaging from organelles to organs. Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1458–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka S, Sawaya MR, Yeates TO. Structure and mechanisms of a protein-based organelle in Escherichia coli. Science. 2010 Jan 1;327(5961):81–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meyer JC, Girit CO, Crommie MF, Zettl A. Imaging and dynamics of light atoms and molecules on graphene. Nature. 2008 Jul 17;454(7202):319–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stuart B. Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012. (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences).

An edited book

Strate J. Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012. Krueger T, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012. XXII, 354 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu W, Zheng C, Sankoff D. Paths and Cycles in Breakpoint Graphs of Random Multichromosomal Genomes. In: Bourque G, El-Mabrouk N, editors. Comparative Genomics: RECOMB 2006 International Workshop, RCG 2006 Montreal, Canada, September 24-26, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 51–62. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. 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 Australian Orthoptic Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Scientists Revolutionize the Search for Other Worlds. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-revolutionize-search-other-worlds/

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. Telecommunications: GSA Has Accumulated Adequate Funding for Transition to New Contracts but Needs Cost Estimation Policy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Feb. Report No.: GAO-07-268.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gu J. Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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

Kelly M. No Headline. New York Times. 1992 Nov 29;126.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Australian Orthoptic Journal
ISSN (print)	0814-0936
Scope