How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. 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

Sakai KL. Language acquisition and brain development. Science 2005;310(5749):815–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruno RM, Sakmann B. Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses. Science 2006;312(5780):1622–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tran J, Brenner TJ, DiNardo S. Somatic control over the germline stem cell lineage during Drosophila spermatogenesis. Nature 2000;407(6805):754–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Erbil HY, Demirel AL, Avci Y, Mert O. Transformation of a simple plastic into a superhydrophobic surface. Science 2003;299(5611):1377–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox DA. Galois Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Wang J, Yi Z, Zurada JM, Lu BL, Yin H, editors. Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006: Third International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, May 28 - June 1, 2006, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Brambilla M, Ceri S, Valle ED, Facca FM, Tziviskou C. A Software Engineering Approach based on WebML and BPMN to the Mediation Scenario of the SWS Challenge. In: Petrie C, Margaria T, Lausen H, Zaremba M, editors. Semantic Web Services Challenge: Results from the First Year. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. page 51–70.

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 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

Fang J. Enormous Ocean Discovered On Jupiter’s Moon [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/theres-vast-ocean-underneath-icy-crust-jupiters-biggest-moon/

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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Information on the Safety Effects of Modifying the Age Standard for Commercial Pilots. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva JA. Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico. 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

Belson K, Pilon M. Marathon Organizers Offer Refund or Future Race. New York Times2012;B18.

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	Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	0301-4738
ISSN (online)	1998-3689
Scope	Ophthalmology