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

Levitin C. New Russian science head named. Nature. 2000 Jun;405(6787):601.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbard J, Shaw JH. Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake. Nature. 2009 Mar;458(7235):194–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guler U, Boltasseva A, Shalaev VM. Applied physics. Refractory plasmonics. Science. 2014 Apr;344(6181):263–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rao F, Ding K, Zhou Y, Zheng Y, Xia M, Lv S, et al. Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing. Science. 2017 Dec;358(6369):1423–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knuth E. Trading Between the Lines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Patel M. The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu J-Z, Ma H-Y, Zhou M-D. Vorticity Dynamics in Flow Separation. In: Ma H-Y, Zhou M-D, editors. Vorticity and Vortex Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006; pp 201–52.

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

Evans K. By Age 6 Girls Are More Likely To Think “Genius” And “Brilliance” Are Male Traits, Not Female [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/by-age-6-girls-are-more-likely-to-think-genius-and-brilliance-are-male-traits-not-female/

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. Biotechnology: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Biotechnology Research Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lew MM. Hydroxyl, Hydroperoxyl, and Organic Peroxy Radical Chemistry in Forested Areas: Measurements, Modeling and Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry. 2017

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

Chira S. A New Rating For Portrayals Of Gender. New York Times. 2017 Jun;C1.

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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