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

Rakic P. Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you. Science. 2006 Aug 18;313(5789):928–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richmond BG, Jungers WL. Orrorin tugenensis femoral morphology and the evolution of hominin bipedalism. Science. 2008 Mar 21;319(5870):1662–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coumou D, Driesner T, Heinrich CA. The structure and dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems. Science. 2008 Sep 26;321(5897):1825–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Watson DA, Su M, Teverovskiy G, Zhang Y, García-Fortanet J, Kinzel T, et al. Formation of ArF from LPdAr(F): catalytic conversion of aryl triflates to aryl fluorides. Science. 2009 Sep 25;325(5948):1661–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann HJ. Handbook of GC-MS. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Lopez J, Mitchell CJ, editors. Information Security: 18th International Conference, ISC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XIII, 570 p. 110 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9290).

A chapter in an edited book

Bhangoo RS, Crockard HA. Ventral Approaches to the Clivus, C1, and C2. In: Watkins RG III, Watkins RG IV, editors. Surgical Approaches to the Spine. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. p. 17–26.

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

Hamilton K. Bald Eagle Braves Snow Storm To Protect Eggs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bald-eagle-covered-snow-while-protecting-eggs/

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. Air Traffic Control: Better Guidance Needed for Deciding Where to Locate Facilities and Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Dec. Report No.: RCED-95-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ortiz-Quiusky S. Substance abuse, smoking, and depression among military veterans [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Greenhouse L. Federal Judges Take Steps To Improve Accountability. New York Times. 2006 Sep 20;A20.

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