How to format your references using the Experimental Eye Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Eye Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cannon, B., 2014. Microbiology: Resistance fighters. Nature 509, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karels, T.J., Boonstra, R., 2000. Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels. Nature 408, 460–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rosenthal, Y., Linsley, B.K., Oppo, D.W., 2013. Pacific Ocean heat content during the past 10,000 years. Science 342, 617–621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, N., Chen, H., He, H., Norimatsu, W., Kusunoki, M., Koumoto, K., 2013. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Nb-doped SrTiO3 by nano-inclusion with low thermal conductivity. Sci. Rep. 3, 3449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ezra, D., Collie, B., Smith, M.X., 2009. The Retirement Plan Solution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reddy, L.H., Couvreur, P. (Eds.), 2010. Macromolecular Anticancer Therapeutics, Macromolecular Anticancer Therapeutics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Takikawa, Y., Kuroda, H., Sawara, K., 2016. The Brain and Liver, in: Ohira, H. (Ed.), The Liver in Systemic Diseases. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 51–75.

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 Experimental Eye Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Antidepressant Trial’s Upended Results Show Need For Sharing All Data [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antidepressant-trial-s-upended-results-show-need-sharing-all-data/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Maritime Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Better Address Port Cybersecurity (No. GAO-14-459). 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

Ringler, I., 2008. Values satisfaction and participation in a community leadership program: A case study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. In Steps Big and Small, Supreme Court Moved Right. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cannon, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cannon, 2014; Karels and Boonstra, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Karels and Boonstra, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Eye Research
Abbreviation	Exp. Eye Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-4835
Scope	Ophthalmology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Sensory Systems