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

Fitch T (2010) Journal club. A cognitive biologist foresees breakthroughs in understanding vocal learning. Nature 466:163

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Woese C (2007) Biology’s next revolution. Nature 445:369

A journal article with 3 authors

Pozzi F, Di Matteo T, Aste T (2013) Spread of risk across financial markets: better to invest in the peripheries. Sci Rep 3:1665

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang Y, Duan X, Cui Y, et al (2001) Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks. Science 294:1313–1317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holzer SM (2015) Statische Beurteilung Historischer Tragwerke. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Roberts GCK (2013) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sebestik J (2011) Otto Neurath’s Epistemology and Its Paradoxes. In: Symons J, Pombo O, Torres JM (eds) Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 41–57

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

Luntz S (2015) Why Cheaters Don’t Prosper. 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 (2011) Transportation Security: Actions Needed to Address Limitations in TSA’s Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments and Growing Workload. 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

Williams AP (2012) Reentry of Substance Abusing Female Ex-Offenders from Prison to an Urban Community. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Lewis MJ (2017) The Art of War. New York Times BR21

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