How to format your references using the Cornea citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cornea. 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

East R. Microbiome: Soil science comes to life. Nature. 2013;501:S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

An SJ, Almers W. Tracking SNARE complex formation in live endocrine cells. Science. 2004;306:1042-1046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng J, Wang Y, Li C. Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont. Nature. 2011;472:181-185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ge B, Gram H, Di Padova F, et al. MAPKK-independent activation of p38alpha mediated by TAB1-dependent autophosphorylation of p38alpha. Science. 2002;295:1291-1294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Supplemental Proceedings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Löffelhardt W, ed. Endosymbiosis. Vienna: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ledger S, Vidovich L, O’Donoghue T. The Research Approach. In: Vidovich L, O’Donoghue T, eds. Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes: The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:57-83.

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 Cornea.

Blog post

Fang J. CT Scan Reveals Hernia In Korean Mummy. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ct-scan-reveals-hernia-korean-mummy/. Published July 11, 2014. 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

Government Accountability Office. Olympic Security: Better Planning Can Enhance U.S. Support to Future Olympic Games. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holmgren JL. Instructor responses to rhetorical dissent: Student perceptions of justice and classroom outcomes. 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

Markoff J. Creating a Safer Phone Battery (This One Won’t Catch Fire). New York Times. December 12, 2016:B1.

In-text citations

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

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	Cornea
Abbreviation	Cornea
ISSN (print)	0277-3740
ISSN (online)	1536-4798
Scope	Ophthalmology