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]

Sommeria J. Unweaving the whirls. Nature 2001;413:575.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rice CM, Saeed M. Hepatitis C: Treatment triumphs. Nature 2014;510:43–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

del Campo A, Boshier MG, Saxena A. Bent waveguides for matter-waves: supersymmetric potentials and reflectionless geometries. Sci Rep 2014;4:5274.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xie D-Y, Sharma SB, Paiva NL, Ferreira D, Dixon RA. Role of anthocyanidin reductase, encoded by BANYULS in plant flavonoid biosynthesis. Science 2003;299:396–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Boulanger J-L. Safety Management for Software-based Equipment. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Król D, Madeyski L, Nguyen NT, editors. Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. vol. 642. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Backhaus M, Miedany YE. Ankylosing Spondylitis. In: El Miedany Y, editor. Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography in Rheumatic Diseases, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 89–106.

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. Parasite Causes Cannibalism In Shrimp. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasite-linked-increase-cannibalism/ (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. National Airspace System: Free Flight Tools Show Promise, but Implementation Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sadr EI. To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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]

Wagner J. Yankees Trade McCann to the Astros. New York Times 2016:B10.

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