How to format your references using the European Journal of Ophthalmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Ophthalmology. 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

Peitgen H-O. Retrospective. Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Science. 2010; 330: 926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brimioulle R, Bach T. Enantioselective Lewis acid catalysis of intramolecular enone [2+2] photocycloaddition reactions. Science. 2013; 342: 840–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barth JV, Costantini G, Kern K. Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces. Nature. 2005; 437: 671–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dean S, Marchetti R, Kirk K, Matthews KR. A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal. Nature. 2009; 459: 213–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taha A-EM, Hassanein HS, Ali NA. LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Kakaç S, Kosoy B, Li D, Pramuanjaroenkij A, editors. Microfluidics Based Microsystems: Fundamentals and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. X, 618 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Tapson J, de Chazal P, van Schaik A. Explicit Computation of Input Weights in Extreme Learning Machines. In: Cao J, Mao K, Cambria E, Man Z, Toh K-A, editors. Proceedings of ELM-2014 Volume 1: Algorithms and Theories. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 41–9.

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 European Journal of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Exploiting Bacteria to Produce “Living Materials” [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/exploiting-bacteria-produce-living-materials/

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. Training America’s Labor Force: Potential, Progress, and Problems of Vocational Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim S. Characterization of Ribosomal S6 Protein Phosphorylation and Posssible Control of Ribosome Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Cell Culture [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2004.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Inquiry Into Pneumonia In Army. New York Times. 2004; : A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	European Journal of Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	1120-6721
ISSN (online)	1724-6016
Scope	General Medicine Ophthalmology