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. Weiss BP. Planetary science. A vitrage of asteroid magnetism. Science. 2012;338:897–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mishra SK, Hoon MA. The cells and circuitry for itch responses in mice. Science. 2013;340:968–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Taguchi A, Wartschow LM, White MF. Brain IRS2 signaling coordinates life span and nutrient homeostasis. Science. 2007;317:369–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Petersen JM, Zielinski FU, Pape T, Seifert R, Moraru C, Amann R, et al. Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature. 2011;476:176–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ziska LH, Dukes JS. Weed Biology and Climate Change. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Calvo Lopez B, Peña E, editors. Patient-Specific Computational Modeling. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tian N, Guo L, Ren M, Ai C. Implementing the Matrix Inversion by Gauss-Jordan Method with CUDA. In: Cai Z, Wang C, Cheng S, Wang H, Gao H, editors. Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 9th International Conference, WASA 2014, Harbin, China, June 23-25, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 44–53.

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. Hale T. Scientists Reveal How To Survive A Real-Life Nuclear Fallout [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-survive-real-life-fallout/

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. Aviation Security: FAA Preboard Passenger Screening Test Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Apr. Report No.: RCED-87-125FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Davidson AR. Computerized physician order entry: An outlook on successful implementation among ambulatory care settings [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Vecsey G. For Golf’s No. 1 Pitchman, Silence Doesn’t Sell. New York Times. 2009 Nov 30;D2.

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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