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

Giles J (2001) Mad cow disease comes to Japan. Nature 413:240

A journal article with 2 authors

Poage MA, Chamberlain CP (2006) Geochemistry. Rising mountain ranges. Science 311:478–479

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor DH, Huber D, Svoboda K (2009) Reverse engineering the mouse brain. Nature 461:923–929

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Perry AL, Low PJ, Ellis JR, Reynolds JD (2005) Climate change and distribution shifts in marine fishes. Science 308:1912–1915

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stafford F (2012) Reading Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Li Y (2016) Interconnected Power Systems: Wide-Area Dynamic Monitoring and Control Applications, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mattner SW (2006) THE IMPACT OF PATHOGENS ON PLANT INTERFERENCE AND ALLELOPATHY. In: INDERJIT, Mukerji KG (eds) Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 79–101

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) SpaceX Might Perform A Daring Landing Of Its Massive New Rocket Later This Year. 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 (2015) Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants. 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

Fichera M (2015) Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Greenhouse L (2008) Justices Will Hear Case On Evidence Suppression. New York Times A15

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

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