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. Falkowski PG. Evolution. Tracing oxygen’s imprint on earth’s metabolic evolution. Science. 2006;311:1724–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liu C-Y, Bard AJ. Pressure-induced insulator conductor transition in a photoconducting organic liquid-crystal film. Nature. 2002;418:162–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hilgenkamp H, Moshchalkov VV, Kes P. Physics. Flux quanta on the move. Science. 2003;302:1159–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lin S-C, Hsu M-Y, Kuan C-M, Wang H-K, Chang C-L, Tseng F-G, et al. Cotton-based diagnostic devices. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6976.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fanchi JR. Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Machlis GE, Hanson T, Špirić Z, McKendry JE, editors. Warfare Ecology: A New Synthesis for Peace and Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wright S, Erkes C. User Training and Adoption. In: Erkes C, editor. Pro SharePoint 2010 Governance. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012. p. 55–76.

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 D. Watch A Bridge Be Demolished In Just Three Seconds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bridge-gets-demolished-just-three-seconds/

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. Responses to Questions for the Record: March 18, 2009, Hearing on ATC Modernization: Near-Term Achievable Goals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 May. Report No.: GAO-09-718R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Copeland EJ. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness [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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Outcry At Claims Against Jews. New York Times. 2005 Jan 26;A6.

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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