How to format your references using the Expert Review of Ophthalmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review 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	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

[1]

Meyer K. Another remembered present. Science. 2012;335:415–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hazeltine E, Ivry RB. Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks? Science. 2002;296:1979–1980.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shu Y, Hasenstaub A, McCormick DA. Turning on and off recurrent balanced cortical activity. Nature. 2003;423:288–293.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Maund JR, Smartt SJ, Kudritzki RP, et al. The massive binary companion star to the progenitor of supernova 1993J. Nature. 2004;427:129–131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Quesnel F. Scheduling of Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ramawat KG, Mérillon J-M, editors. Polysaccharides: Bioactivity and Biotechnology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Landau ID, Lozano R, M’Saad M, et al. Recursive Plant Model Identification in Open Loop. In: Lozano R, M’Saad M, Karimi A, editors. Adaptive Control: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications. London: Springer; 2011. p. 153–191.

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 Expert Review of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Scientists Describe Potential New DNA Base [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-describe-potential-new-addition-dna-code/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Household Goods Transport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992. Report No.: GGD-92-23R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cox ET. Prenatal cocaine: Effects on neonatal vocalizations, cue-induced maternal response, and brain development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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

[1]

Herrman J. Blue State. New York Times. 2016 Aug 24;MM50.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Expert Review of Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	1746-9899
ISSN (online)	1746-9902
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Ophthalmology Optometry