How to format your references using the Contact Lens and Anterior Eye citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contact Lens and Anterior Eye. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Aguzzi A. Cell biology. Prion toxicity: all sail and no anchor. Science 2005;308:1420–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morgan MA, Shilatifard A. Medicine. (Poly)combing the pediatric cancer genome for answers. Science 2013;340:823–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature 2004;430:1044–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu B, Wang X, Chen H, Wang Z, Chen D, Cheng Y-B, et al. Hierarchical silicon nanowires-carbon textiles matrix as a binder-free anode for high-performance advanced lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep 2013;3:1622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Soprano A. Liquidity Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 199. vol. 199. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Akbari CM. Clinical Features and Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Disease. In: Veves A, Giurini JM, LoGerfo FW, editors. The Diabetic Foot: Medical and Surgical Management, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012, p. 75–85.

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 Contact Lens and Anterior Eye.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. California’s Majestic Trees Are Declining — A Harbinger Of Future Forests. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/california-s-majestic-trees-are-declining-harbinger-future-forests/ (accessed October 30, 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. Bureau of Indian Affairs: Distribution of Fiscal Year 2000 Indian Reservation Roads Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith KL. Initial construct validation of the color figure mazes test. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

Shpigel B. Rookies Impressed in N.F.L.’s Week 1. Don’t Get Too Excited. New York Times 2017:B11.

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	Contact Lens and Anterior Eye
Abbreviation	Cont. Lens Anterior Eye
ISSN (print)	1367-0484
Scope	General Medicine Ophthalmology Optometry