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

Bruneau, B.G., 2008. The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. Nature 451, 943–948.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gandhi, S.P., Stevens, C.F., 2003. Three modes of synaptic vesicular recycling revealed by single-vesicle imaging. Nature 423, 607–613.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerke, J., Lorenz, K., Cohen, B., 2009. Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science 323, 498–501.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mattesini, M., Belonoshko, A.B., Tkalčić, H., Buforn, E., Udías, A., Ahuja, R., 2013. Candy Wrapper for the Earth’s inner core. Sci. Rep. 3, 2096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez, R., 2005. A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Hoi, S.C.H., Luo, J., Boll, S., Xu, D., Jin, R., King, I. (Eds.), 2011. Social Media Modeling and Computing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Kras, J.F., 2015. Perioperative Considerations of Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate Orders in Adult Patients, in: Jericho, B.G. (Ed.), Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–57.

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, D., 2017. The Unknown Crocodiles [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-unknown-crocodiles/ (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, 1994. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program (No. RCED-94-167FS). 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

Luo, P., 2010. Evaluation of the flicker effect as a generative strategy in enhancing computer -based instruction (CBI) of visual recognition and classification (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. Deadline Nears in Puerto Rico, Amid Haggling. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bruneau, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bruneau, 2008; Gandhi and Stevens, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gandhi and Stevens, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Mattesini 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