How to format your references using the Eye citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eye. 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. Marchio EA. My metamorphosis. Science. 2015; 347(6218): 206.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vincent ACJ, Harris JM. Marine Science. Boundless no more. Science. 2014; 346(6208): 420–421.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Saikia A, Frost DJ, Rubie DC. Splitting of the 520-kilometer seismic discontinuity and chemical heterogeneity in the mantle. Science. 2008; 319(5869): 1515–1518.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lallement R, Quémerais E, Bertaux JL, Ferron S, Koutroumpa D, Pellinen R. Deflection of the interstellar neutral hydrogen flow across the heliospheric interface. Science. 2005; 307(5714): 1447–1449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Campbell CA, Collins M.The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Bikakis A, Zheng X eds.Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 9th International Workshop, MIWAI 2015, Fuzhou, China, November 13-15, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. de Melo Bezerra J, Santos Diniz L, da Silva Montalvão V, Hirata CM. Motivating Online Teams: An Investigation on Task Significance, Coordination and Incentive Mechanisms. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, Majchrzak TA, Turk Ž (eds). Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 93–108.

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.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Cruise Ship Destroys Part Of The Most Biodiverse Reef On Earth. IFLScience. 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cruise-ship-destroys-part-of-the-most-biodiverse-reef-on-earth/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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.The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Professional Standards Review Organization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mayo J. Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County. 2010.

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. Blumenthal R, Greenhouse L. Texas Planning New Execution Despite Ruling. New York Times. 2007: A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	EYE
ISSN (print)	0950-222X
ISSN (online)	1476-5454
Scope	Ophthalmology General Arts and Humanities