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. Springer TA. Immunology. Retrospective: César Milstein (1927-2002). Science. 2002;296:1253.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Flowers RM, Farley KA. Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon. Science. 2012;338:1616–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature. 2009;461:501–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Coleman JR, Papamichail D, Skiena S, Futcher B, Wimmer E, Mueller S. Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias. Science. 2008;320:1784–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Geren RL. Applying the Building Code. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Goldstein S, Naglieri JA, editors. Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bettinson V. Surviving Times of Austerity: Preserving the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Provision. In: Hilder S, Bettinson V, editors. Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 81–103.

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. Davis J. Half Of All Western Europe’s Population May Be Descended From Just One Man [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/half-all-western-european-population-may-be-descended-just-one-man/

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. Transportation Security: Systematic Planning Needed to Optimize Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Feb. Report No.: GAO-05-357T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lin L-M. Transformation in Chinese Theatre Works’ the Legend of White Snake [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Kenigsberg B. Review: ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ Might Not Be Worth It. New York Times. 2016 Oct 20;C9.

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
Scope

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