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

Feldheim DL (2007) Chemistry. The new face of catalysis. Science 316:699–700

A journal article with 2 authors

Panning M, Romanowicz B (2004) Inferences on flow at the base of Earth’s mantle based on seismic anisotropy. Science 303:351–353

A journal article with 3 authors

Rutberg RL, Hemming SR, Goldstein SL (2000) Reduced North Atlantic Deep Water flux to the glacial Southern Ocean inferred from neodymium isotope ratios. Nature 405:935–938

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cheng H-C, Skehan BM, Campellone KG, et al (2008) Structural mechanism of WASP activation by the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli effector EspF(U). Nature 454:1009–1013

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shafer G, Vovk V (2005) Probability and Finance: It’s Only a Game! John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Elizondo DA, Solanas A, Martinez-Balleste A (2012) Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mora T, Orsini E (2009) Decoding Cyclic Codes: the Cooper Philosophy. In: Sala M, Sakata S, Mora T, et al (eds) Gröbner Bases, Coding, and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 69–91

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

Andrew E (2015) Promising Antibody That Neutralises HIV Shows Why We Shouldn’t Give Up On A Vaccine. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-antibody-neutralises-hiv-shows-why-we-shouldn-t-give-vaccine/. 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 (2014) Space Acquisitions: Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report. 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

Miller BA (2012) “Parable-art” beyond the Auden generation: An examination of the message-bearing aspects and architecture of two twenty-first-century works for chorus and chamber orchestra. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Wagner J (2017) He Licks Bats, and He Kisses His Coach. Don’t Give Him Any More Ideas. New York Times B12

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

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