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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Japanese 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

1. Wadman M. When the party’s over. Nature. 2007;445:13.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wang ZX, Schleyer PR. Construction principles of “hyparenes”: families of molecules with planar pentacoordinate carbons. Science. 2001;292:2465–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sereno MI, Pitzalis S, Martinez A. Mapping of contralateral space in retinotopic coordinates by a parietal cortical area in humans. Science. 2001;294:1350–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rost AW, Perry RS, Mercure J-F, Mackenzie AP, Grigera SA. Entropy landscape of phase formation associated with quantum criticality in Sr3Ru2O7. Science. 2009;325:1360–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Good PI. Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and Microsoft Office Excel ®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Ourselin S, Joskowicz L, Sabuncu MR, Unal G, Wells W, editors. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2016: 19th International Conference, Athens, Greece, October 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ziegler GM, Vogt T. Mathematics for the People. In: Behrends E, Crato N, Rodrigues JF, editors. Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 37–46.

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 Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Record Breeding Season For The Enigmatic Kākāpō Parrot. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Student Attrition at the Five Federal Service Academies - Enclosure C. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Mar. Report No.: FPCD-76-12C.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dair C. Development of a nutrition-related curriculum for sustainable food waste management for foodservice operations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Kishkovsky S. Moscow Journal; Feast or Fast? Russians Just Can’t Give Up Lent. New York Times. 2002 Apr 29;A4.

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	Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	Jpn. J. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	0021-5155
ISSN (online)	1613-2246
Scope	General Medicine Ophthalmology

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