How to format your references using the Current Ophthalmology Reports citation style

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

1. Stith JE. When I was your age. Nature. 2000;407:23.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Demmig-Adams B, Adams WW 3rd. Antioxidants in photosynthesis and human nutrition. Science. 2002;298:2149–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lin T-W, Dai C-S, Hung K-C. High energy density asymmetric supercapacitor based on NiOOH/Ni3S2/3D graphene and Fe3O4/graphene composite electrodes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7274.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Volkov I, Banavar JR, Maritan A, Hubbell SP. Neutral theory: the stability of forest biodiversity. Nature. 2004;427:696; discussion 696-7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Halloran M, Thies C. The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Morrill G, Nederhof M-J, editors. Formal Grammar: 17th and 18th International Conferences, FG 2012, Opole, Poland, August 2012, Revised Selected Papers, FG 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chen Y, Yu H. DNA-Based Nanotechnology Biosensors for Surgical Diagnosis. In: Webster TJ, editor. Nanotechnology Enabled In situ Sensors for Monitoring Health. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 75–94.

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 Ophthalmology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Primitive Meteorites Brought Water To Early Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/primitive-meteorites-brought-water-early-earth/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Electric Power Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Apr. Report No.: AIMD-99-114.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Forlizzi ML. Congruency of supervisor and counselor perceptions of actual and preferred counselor work behaviors [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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

1. Davey M. Limits on Unions Pass in Michigan, Once a Mainstay. New York Times. 2012 Dec 11;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Ophthalmology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Ophthalmol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4868
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