How to format your references using the Documenta Ophthalmologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Documenta Ophthalmologica. 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

Borniger JC (2015) Leaping into the unknown. Science 350:882

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiner HL, Selkoe DJ (2002) Inflammation and therapeutic vaccination in CNS diseases. Nature 420:879–884

A journal article with 3 authors

Ross RJ, Weiner MM, Lin H (2014) PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma. Nature 505:353–359

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Neutze R, Wouts R, van der Spoel D, et al (2000) Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses. Nature 406:752–757

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dosil J (2008) Eating Disorders in Athletes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, England

An edited book

Wada K (2015) Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Park J-J, Song J-B, Kim H-S (2008) Safe Joint Mechanism Based on Passive Compliance for Collision Safety. In: Lee S, Suh IH, Kim MS (eds) Recent Progress in Robotics: Viable Robotic Service to Human: An Edition of the Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–61

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 Documenta Ophthalmologica.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Firefly Gene Lights Path To HIV Protection In Women. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/firefly-gene-lights-path-hiv-protection/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Public Issues Pertaining to Science and Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman ED (2014) The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Koblin J, Corasaniti N (2017) One Nation, Under Fox. New York Times A18

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	Documenta Ophthalmologica
Abbreviation	Doc. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	0012-4486
ISSN (online)	1573-2622
Scope	Ophthalmology Physiology (medical) Sensory Systems