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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. de Boer Y. Copenhagen shows we need caution in Cancún. Nature. 2010;468:477.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Harris SE, Bellino M. IBI* series winner. DNA barcoding from NYC to Belize. Science. 2013;342:1462–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Leopold DA, Bondar IV, Giese MA. Norm-based face encoding by single neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nature. 2006;442:572–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jang J-H, Lee E, Park J, Kim G, Hong S, Kwon Y-U. Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Muralikrishnan B. Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology. Raja J, editor. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Boavida N. The Use and Influence of Indicators in Decisions About Technological Innovation. In: Krings B-J, Rodríguez H, Schleisiek A, editors. Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2016. p. 59–99.

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. The Trouble With Using Synthetic Rhino Horn to Stop Poaching [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trouble-using-synthetic-rhino-horn-stop-poaching/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. Contract Award by the Federal Power Commission for Developing and Installing a Regulatory Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Apr. Report No.: RED-76-59.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green EI. Caregiver wellness: An inquiry of health risks among frontline direct caregivers of the elderly and disabled [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2009.

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. Leland J. ‘Weird Isn’t In Right Now.’ New York Times. 2017 Sep 8;MB1.

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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