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. Pinker S. Decline of violence: Taming the devil within us. Nature. 2011;478:309–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. LaFever L, Drummond-Barbosa D. Direct control of germline stem cell division and cyst growth by neural insulin in Drosophila. Science. 2005;309:1071–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Haas W, Shepard BD, Gilmore MS. Two-component regulator of Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin responds to quorum-sensing autoinduction. Nature. 2002;415:84–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kopp A, Duncan I, Godt D, Carroll SB. Genetic control and evolution of sexually dimorphic characters in Drosophila. Nature. 2000;408:553–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dye FJ. Dictionary of Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Translational Medicine. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Jones JS, editor. Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: PSA, Biopsy and Beyond. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Owen BM, Rosston GL. Local Broadband Access: Primum Non Nocere or Primum Processi? A Property Rights Approach. In: Lenard TM, May RJ, editors. Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services be Regulated. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 163–94.

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. Petrified Tree Shows Scars From Prehistoric Wildfires [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/petrified-tree-shows-scars-prehistoric-wildfires/

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. Land Management Systems: Actions Needed in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 May. Report No.: AIMD-98-107.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brown O. Business and IT leaders’ behavioral affects on alignment and project outcome: A comparative leadership study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Chira S. Powerful Woman? Yes. ‘Feminist’? No. New York Times. 2017 Sep 16;SR6.

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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