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

Manuelidis, L., 2000. Penny wise, pound foolish-a retrospective. Science 290, 2257b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell, B.B., Spiegelman, B.M., 2000. Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis. Nature 404, 652–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux, E.J., Marshall, C.P., Bekker, A., 2010. Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature 463, 934–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gilijamse, J.J., Hoekstra, S., van de Meerakker, S.Y.T., Groenenboom, G.C., Meijer, G., 2006. Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity. Science 313, 1617–1620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, G., Laporte, G., Musmanno, R., 2005. Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lowe, G.F., Brown, C. (Eds.), 2016. Managing Media Firms and Industries: What’s So Special About Media Management?, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Media Business and Innovation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Portela, A.E., Folgueras, J., Milanes, A., Forneiro, Y., 2009. Architecture Proposal for an Automated Biphasic External Defibrillator, in: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine, IFMBE Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 13–16.

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

Luntz, S., 2017. Other Solar Systems Are Looking More Like Ours [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1997. [Comments on Amtrak Labor Protection Issues] (No. B-277814). 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

Swinford, R.R., 2012. Adapted dance - connecting mind, body and soul (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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. Guantánamo Legal Battle Is Resuming. New York Times 114.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manuelidis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lowell and Spiegelman, 2000; Manuelidis, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lowell and Spiegelman, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Gilijamse et al., 2006)

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