How to format your references using the Current Eye Research citation style

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

Sime LC. Climate. Greenland deglaciation puzzles. Science. 2014 Sep 5;345(6201):1116–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barouch DH, Deeks SG. Immunologic strategies for HIV-1 remission and eradication. Science. 2014 Jul 11;345(6193):169–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs JA, Lowndes NF, Jackson SP. A role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae histone H2A in DNA repair. Nature. 2000;408(6815):1001–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Laurance WF, Delamônica P, Laurance SG, Vasconcelos HL, Lovejoy TE. Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees. Nature. 2000 Apr 20;404(6780):836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard GT. The Relationship Inventory. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Chemat F, Vian MA, editors. Alternative Solvents for Natural Products Extraction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. XII, 315 p. 116 illus., 59 illus. in color. (Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Grinevetsky SR, Zonn IS, Zhiltsov SS, Kosarev AN, Kostianoy AG. C. In: Zonn IS, Zhiltsov SS, Kosarev AN, Kostianoy AG, editors. The Black Sea Encyclopedia. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 169–215.

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 Current Eye Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 4-Year-Old Australian Boy Receives World’s First Artificial Pancreas [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/4-year-old-australian-boy-receives-world-s-first-artificial-pancreas/

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. Computer Systems: Actions on OMB Recommendations for a Joint Lookout System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Dec. Report No.: IMTEC-90-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perantoni EJ. Course design based on the Kolb learning style as it relates to student success in online classes [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2010.

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

Pratt T. ‘If You Fix Cities, You Kind of Fix the World.’ New York Times. 2012 Oct 19;MM22.

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	Current Eye Research
Abbreviation	Curr. Eye Res.
ISSN (print)	0271-3683
ISSN (online)	1460-2202
Scope	Ophthalmology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Sensory Systems