How to format your references using the Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection citation style

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

Lee JT (2005) Regulation of X-chromosome counting by Tsix and Xite sequences. Science 309:768–771

A journal article with 2 authors

Benoist C, Mathis D (2002) Mast cells in autoimmune disease. Nature 420:875–878

A journal article with 3 authors

Hubbell JA, Thomas SN, Swartz MA (2009) Materials engineering for immunomodulation. Nature 462:449–460

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Block DL, Bournaud F, Combes F, et al (2006) An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy. Nature 443:832–834

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinet J (2014) Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Varma A, Oelmüller R (2007) Advanced Techniques in Soil Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mobilio S (2015) Introduction to Matter Radiation Interaction. In: Mobilio S, Boscherini F, Meneghini C (eds) Synchrotron Radiation: Basics, Methods and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 107–143

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 Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) The Peanut Genes That Cause Allergy In Humans Have Been Identified. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1990) FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeMoss MD (2010) Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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 (2010) Maine Giving Social Security Another Look. New York Times A1

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	Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection
Abbreviation	J. Ophthalmic Inflamm. Infect.
ISSN (online)	1869-5760
Scope	Infectious Diseases Ophthalmology