How to format your references using the Eye and Vision citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eye and Vision. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Thauer RK. Microbiology. A fifth pathway of carbon fixation. Science. 2007;318:1732–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pedersen TR, Gerken EA. Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves. Nature. 2005;433:498–500.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pham TCT, Kim HS, Yoon KB. Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates. Science. 2011;334:1533–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Atarashi K, Tanoue T, Shima T, Imaoka A, Kuwahara T, Momose Y, et al. Induction of colonic regulatory T cells by indigenous Clostridium species. Science. 2011;331:337–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Koepsell D. Who Owns You? Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Dignum F, Brom C, Hindriks K, Beer M, Richards D, editors. Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments: First International Workshop, CAVE 2012, Held at AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ghersetich I, Brazzini B, Lotti T, De Padova MP, Tosti A. Resorcinol. In: Tosti A, Grimes PE, Padova MPD, editors. Color Atlas of Chemical Peels. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 41–7.

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 Eye and Vision.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. The Huge “Asteroid” Set To Fly Past Earth Today Is Actually A Dead Comet - And It Looks Just Like A Skull! [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/huge-asteroid-set-fly-past-earth-today-actually-dead-comet-and-it-looks-just-skull/

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. Federal Research: Super Collider Is Over Budget and Behind Schedule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Feb. Report No.: RCED-93-87.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Valenzuela J. Medicare advantage’s population make-up and its impact on the future of Medicare financing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Kelly C. County Gears Up for Its First Empire Games. New York Times. 2007 Jul 22;WE12.

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	Eye and Vision
Abbreviation	Eye Vis. (Lond.)
ISSN (online)	2326-0254
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