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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Casey BJ. Neuroscience. Windows into the human brain. Science. 2002; 296(5572): 1408–1409.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. McCarthy PM, Smith WA. Mechanical circulatory support--a long and winding road. Science. 2002; 295(5557): 998–999.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Harley HE, Putman EA, Roitblat HL. Bottlenose dolphins perceive object features through echolocation. Nature. 2003; 424(6949): 667–669.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Santander-Syro AF, Copie O, Kondo T, Fortuna F, Pailhès S, Weht R, et al. Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO(3). Nature. 2011; 469(7329): 189–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Shuttleworth WJ.Terrestrial Hydrometeorology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.
An edited book
1. Watson RR, Preedy VR, Zibadi S eds.Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Jones RT, Burns KD, Immel CS, Moore RM, Schwartz-Goel K, Culpepper B. The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Adolescents: Conceptual and Methodological Implications for Assessment and Intervention. In: Cherry KE (ed). Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009. pp. 65–94.

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.

Blog post
1. Luntz S. Spitfire Insects Need Leaders and Followers. IFLScience. 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/insects-need-leaders-and-followers/ [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.Tax Administration: Status of Tax Systems Modernization, Tax Delinquencies, and the Tax Gap. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Kalinec-Craig C. A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences. 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. Whiteside K. Rare Double for a Noted Owner. New York Times. 2017: B7.

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 titleEye
AbbreviationEYE
ISSN (print)0950-222X
ISSN (online)1476-5454
ScopeOphthalmology
General Arts and Humanities

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