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

Gehrels T. Brains, courage and integrity. Nature. 2000;404:335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamura A, Yui N. Lysosomal-specific cholesterol reduction by biocleavable polyrotaxanes for ameliorating Niemann-Pick type C disease. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altewischer E, van Exter MP, Woerdman JP. Plasmon-assisted transmission of entangled photons. Nature. 2002;418:304-306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kellis M, Patterson N, Endrizzi M, et al. Sequencing and comparison of yeast species to identify genes and regulatory elements. Nature. 2003;423:241-254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo JB, Lin S-C. Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

Gates P, Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) R, eds. Shifts in the Field of Mathematics Education: Stephen Lerman and the Turn to the Social. Singapore: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Saric M. Echo Assessment of Systolic and Diastolic Function in Acute Coronary Syndrome. In: Herzog E, Chaudhry F, eds. Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention. London: Springer; 2009:37-57.

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

Andrew E. Another Chimpanzee Personhood Claim Fails, But There’s Hope Yet. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/another-chimpanzee-personhood-claim-fails-there-s-hope-yet/. Published August 6, 2015. 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. Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hurwitz BL. Viral community dynamics and functional specialization in the Pacific Ocean. 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

Horowitz J, Alderman L. Angry at E.U., Greece Warms to China’s Cash. New York Times. August 26, 2017:A1.

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