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

Kideys AE. Ecology. Fall and rise of the Black Sea ecosystem. Science. 2002;297(5586):1482-1484.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devoret MH, Schoelkopf RJ. Superconducting circuits for quantum information: an outlook. Science. 2013;339(6124):1169-1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini JUL, McDermott F, Fairchild IJ. Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record. Science. 2002;296(5576):2203-2206.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Johnson RE, Washington MT, Haracska L, Prakash S, Prakash L. Eukaryotic polymerases iota and zeta act sequentially to bypass DNA lesions. Nature. 2000;406(6799):1015-1019.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff NP. Industrial Gas Flaring Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Holder RD, Mitton S, eds. Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy. Vol 395. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerami P, Gammon B, Murphy MJ. Melanocytic Neoplasms I: Molecular Diagnosis. In: Murphy MJ, ed. Molecular Diagnostics in Dermatology and Dermatopathology. Humana Press; 2011:73-103.

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

Hale T. France Leads The Way With World’s First Solar Panel Road. IFLScience. Published December 23, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/france-leads-the-way-with-worlds-first-solar-panel-road/

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. ADP Systems: FDA Can Reduce Development Risks for Its Import Information System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moore BA. The Writing Machine. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Paulson M. Theater Jobs Skew White And Male, Study Finds. New York Times. June 26, 2017:C1.

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