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]

Goldston D. Spending stalemate. Nature 2007;449:962.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Montgomery DR, Manga M. Streamflow and water well responses to earthquakes. Science 2003;300:2047–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kovalenko MV, Scheele M, Talapin DV. Colloidal nanocrystals with molecular metal chalcogenide surface ligands. Science 2009;324:1417–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pandey A, Misra P, Bhambhani S, Bhatia C, Trivedi PK. Expression of Arabidopsis MYB transcription factor, AtMYB111, in tobacco requires light to modulate flavonol content. Sci Rep 2014;4:5018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

German Concrete and Construction Cl. Beispiele zur Bemessung Nach Eurocode 2. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Barboiu M, editor. Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry. vol. 322. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hjertager BH. Multi-fluid CFD Analysis of Chemical Reactors. In: Marchisio DL, Fox RO, editors. Multiphase Reacting Flows: Modelling and Simulation, Vienna: Springer; 2007, p. 125–79.

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]

Andrews R. Some Volcanoes Become Eerily Silent Just Before They Erupt. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/some-volcanoes-become-eerily-silent-just-before-they-erupt/ (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. VA Education Benefits: VA Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide More Timely Information to Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aggarwal E. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS. Love That Look, Wonder Woman. New York Times 2010:C3.

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

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