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

Frankel, M.S., 2012. Regulating the boundaries of dual-use research. Science 336, 1523–1525.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, J.S., Boeke, J.D., 2001. Transcription. Is S phase important for transcriptional silencing? Science 291, 608–609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, F., Chen, X., Vitousek, P., 2013. Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature 497, 33–35.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guiducci, C., Gong, M., Xu, Z., Gill, M., Chaussabel, D., Meeker, T., Chan, J.H., Wright, T., Punaro, M., Bolland, S., Soumelis, V., Banchereau, J., Coffman, R.L., Pascual, V., Barrat, F.J., 2010. TLR recognition of self nucleic acids hampers glucocorticoid activity in lupus. Nature 465, 937–941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake, P.P., Fabozzi, F.J., 2009. Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Samelson, R.M., 2006. Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dascal, M., 2006. The Elements of Thinking, in: Dascal, M. (Ed.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Art of Controversies, The New Synthese Historical Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–34.

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. Our New Anti-Earthquake Technology Could Protect Cities From Destruction [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/our-new-anti-earthquake-technology-could-protect-cities-destruction/ (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, 1991. Test and Evaluation: Description of Projects in DOD’s Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (No. NSIAD-91-111S). 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

Boysen, J., 2008. The ESCRT machinery, required for endosomal trafficking, is a pH-signaling platform (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Pilon, M., 2013. Olympic Leaders Mend U.S. Ties With the I.O.C. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frankel, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Frankel, 2012; Smith and Boeke, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Boeke, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Guiducci et al., 2010)

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