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

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

Ehlers MD. Eppendorf 2003 prize-winning essay. Ubiquitin and the deconstruction of synapses. Science. 2003;302(5646):800-801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dagan T, Martin W. Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes. Science. 2009;324(5935):1651-1652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita YM, Jones DL, Fuller MT. Orientation of asymmetric stem cell division by the APC tumor suppressor and centrosome. Science. 2003;301(5639):1547-1550.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Turner DL, Wilson LB 3rd, Liu TZ, et al. Autogenous and efficient acceleration of energetic ions upstream of Earth’s bow shock. Nature. 2018;561(7722):206-210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trigeassou JC. Electrical Machines Diagnosis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Schwartz RA, Byrne JA, Colaninno A, eds. Technology and Regulation: How Are They Driving Our Markets? Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Buskes G, Bu Q, Kusraev AG. Bilinear Maps on Products of Vector Lattices: A Survey. In: Boulabiar K, Buskes G, Triki A, eds. Positivity. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser; 2007:97-126.

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 Journal of Current Ophthalmology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Hundreds Of Meteors Will Light Up The Night Sky Tonight. IFLScience.

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. Greater Use of Satellite Telecommunications To Link ADP Facilities Could Save Millions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Finley S. How Online Communication and Social Media Networking Are Used in Alcohol Use Treatment. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2014.

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

Walsh MW. Illinois Plan For Pensions Questioned. New York Times. January 26, 2011:B1.

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	Journal of Current Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	J. Curr. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	2452-2325
Scope