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

Johnson CN. Anthropology. The remaking of Australia’s ecology. Science. 2005 Jul 8;309(5732):255–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMurray MA, Gottschling DE. An age-induced switch to a hyper-recombinational state. Science. 2003 Sep 26;301(5641):1908–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Max CE, Canalizo G, de Vries WH. Locating the two black holes in NGC 6240. Science. 2007 Jun 29;316(5833):1877–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zurbuchen MA, Lake MP, Kohan SA, Leung B, Bouchard LS. Nanodiamond landmarks for subcellular multimodal optical and electron imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shimizu H. Shimizu’s Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Bonate PL, Howard DR, editors. Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Problems and Challenges in Oncology, Volume 4. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XII, 330 p. 32 illus., 23 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang J, Zhao Y. Visual Data Mining in a Q&A Based Social Media Website. In: Chen C, Larsen R, editors. Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 41–55.

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. Exxon Knew About Climate Change In 1981 – And Covered It Up. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Adolescent Drug Use Prevention: Common Features of Promising Community Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jan. Report No.: PEMD-92-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clovis DJ. The thayer valve and its effect on a generation and beyond [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar F, Sophia Chang on, Koblin J, Nate Schweber in, et al. That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times. 2006 Mar 19;14CN5.

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