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

May M. Heart health. Nature. 2013;493(7434):S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu Y, Marsh JW. Selective transcription and modulation of resting T cell activity by preintegrated HIV DNA. Science. 2001;293(5534):1503-1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

George AM, Iñiguez J, Bellaiche L. Anomalous properties in ferroelectrics induced by atomic ordering. Nature. 2001;413(6851):54-57.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kagansky A, Folco HD, Almeida R, et al. Synthetic heterochromatin bypasses RNAi and centromeric repeats to establish functional centromeres. Science. 2009;324(5935):1716-1719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson DA. Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Nielsen KB, Nilsen AG, eds. Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy? Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Badiqué E. Information and Communication Technologies in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme. In: Levi A, Savaş E, Yenigün H, Balcısoy S, Saygın Y, eds. Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2006: 21th International Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, November 1-3, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2006:36-36.

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

Luntz S. Watch A Man Play Guitar While Surgeons Remove Tumor From His Brain. 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. Joint Direct Attack Munition: Low-Rate Initial Production Decision. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Karasik BA. Tele-Collaboration in Theatre: Collaboration Mgmt Tools in a Digital and Globalized Age. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Schwartz J. When an Executive Acts Like a Spoiled Brat. New York Times. July 14, 2017:BU14.

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

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