How to format your references using the Ocular Oncology and Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ocular Oncology and Pathology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Woodhead J. Earth science: Mixing it up in the mantle. Nature. 2015 Jan;517(7534):275–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake MJ, Righter K. Determining the composition of the Earth. Nature. 2002 Mar;416(6876):39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lepper C, Conway SJ, Fan C-M. Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature. 2009 Jul;460(7255):627–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ousman SS, Tomooka BH, van Noort JM, Wawrousek EF, O’Connor KC, Hafler DA, et al. Protective and therapeutic role for alphaB-crystallin in autoimmune demyelination. Nature. 2007 Jul;448(7152):474–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raz D, Juhola A, Serrat-Fernandez J, Galis A. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Holland S, Wilkie K, Mulholland P, Seago A, editors. Music and Human-Computer Interaction. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Betzler N, Uhlmann J. Parameterized Complexity of Candidate Control in Elections and Related Digraph Problems. In: Yang B, Du D-Z, Wang CA, editors. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: Second International Conference, COCOA 2008, St. John’s, NL, Canada, August 21-24, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008; pp 43–53.

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 Ocular Oncology and Pathology.

Blog post

Davis J. Scientists Seek To Define The True “Pre-Industrial” Baseline For Global Temperatures [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-seek-to-define-the-true-preindustrial-baseline-for-global-temperatures/

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. Rural Broadband Deployment: Improved Consistency with Leading Practices Could Enhance Management of Loan and Grant Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shaker M. Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver. 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

Walsh MW. New Puerto Rico Debt Relief Law Stirs Colonial Resentments. New York Times. 2016 Jul;B1.

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	Ocular Oncology and Pathology
Abbreviation	Ocul. Oncol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	2296-4681
ISSN (online)	2296-4657
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