How to format your references using the Journal of Glaucoma citation style

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

Joyce GF. The antiquity of RNA-based evolution. Nature. 2002;418(6894):214-221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickaby REM, Halloran P. Cool La Niña during the warmth of the Pliocene? Science. 2005;307(5717):1948-1952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reznick DN, Mateos M, Springer MS. Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis. Science. 2002;298(5595):1018-1020.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang H, Yin Y, Wang G, Liu Z, Liu L, Sun F. Interleukin-6 disrupts blood-testis barrier through inhibiting protein degradation or activating phosphorylated ERK in Sertoli cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey IC, Allan A. A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Artho C, Ölveczky PC, eds. Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: 4th International Workshop, FTSCS 2015, Paris, France, November 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 596. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagel MA, Cohrs RJ, Gilden D. Varicella Zoster Virus Infections. In: Jackson AC, ed. Viral Infections of the Human Nervous System. Springer; 2013:87-114.

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 Glaucoma.

Blog post

Carpineti C. NASA Just Released Some Seriously Cool Videos Of Fire In Microgravity. IFLScience. Published November 29, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-released-some-seriously-cool-videos-of-fire-in-microgravity-/

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. The Cost Effectiveness of an Education Assistance Program (GI Bill) as a Recruiting Incentive Is Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldstein DL. Integration of Geospatial Technologies into K–12 Curriculum: An Investigation of Teacher and Student Perceptions and Student Academic Achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University; 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

McKINLEY JC Jr. Rikers Guards Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to, or Even Enabling, Sex Assaults. New York Times. September 22, 2017:A19.

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 Glaucoma
Abbreviation	J. Glaucoma
ISSN (print)	1057-0829
ISSN (online)	1536-481X
Scope	Ophthalmology