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

Pirandola S. Quantum discord as a resource for quantum cryptography. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 7;4:6956.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maizels RM, Allen JE. Immunology. Eosinophils forestall obesity. Science. 2011 Apr 8;332(6026):186–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng JK, Philippe RN, Noel JP. The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science. 2012 Jun 29;336(6089):1667–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mogi I, Morimoto R, Aogaki R, Watanabe K. Surface chirality induced by rotational electrodeposition in magnetic fields. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sabol S. Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Jameson DM, editor. Perspectives on Fluorescence: A Tribute to Gregorio Weber. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. X, 346 p. 100 illus., 72 illus. in color. (Springer Series on Fluorescence, Methods and Applications; vol. 17).

A chapter in an edited book

Mokam D. US and the Democratic Process in Cameroon from 1990 to 2013. In: Burt S, Añorve DA, editors. Global Perspectives on US Democratization Efforts: From the Outside In. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 69–88.

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]. ‘Rubber Hand’ Illusion May Build Understanding of Sensory Processing In Autistic Brains. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/rubber-hand-illusion-may-build-understanding-sensory-processing-autistic-brains/

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. DOD Education Benefits: Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Mar. Report No.: GAO-11-389T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Timko EJ. Polynomial Tuples of Commuting Isometries Constrained by 1-Dimensional Varieties [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 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

Crow K. Some Merchants Tire of Going Hollywood. New York Times. 2002 Jul 7;145.

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