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

Smith C. Drug discovery in reverse. Nature. 2004 Mar;428(6979):227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moar WJ, Anilkumar KJ. Plant science. The power of the pyramid. Science. 2007 Dec;318(5856):1561–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loeffler JM, Nelson D, Fischetti VA. Rapid killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a bacteriophage cell wall hydrolase. Science. 2001 Dec;294(5549):2170–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sakuda A, Takeuchi T, Okamura K, Kobayashi H, Sakaebe H, Tatsumi K, et al. Rock-salt-type lithium metal sulphides as novel positive-electrode materials. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:4883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris C. Electricity Markets. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Swapna M. Molecular Marker Applications for Improving Sugar Content in Sugarcane. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Mizio R, Di Mizio V, Della Marra R, Di Rocco D, Sciarra R, Grassi R. Correlazioni radiologiche. In: Mizio RD, Scaglione M, editors. Ileo meccanico dell’intestino tenue: Aspetti TC e correlazioni eco-radiografiche. Milano: Springer; 2007; pp 73–109.

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

Andrew E. Why A Pill To Prevent HIV Is Causing Great Controversy [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-pill-prevent-hiv-causing-great-controversy/

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. Follow-up Review on Assistance to War Victims in Vietnam. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams VD. Leadership behavior practice patterns’ relationship to employee work engagement in a nonprofit that supports the homeless. 2014

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

Alvarez L. Families Hope Words Endure Past Shooting. New York Times. 2015 Jun;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	Ocular Oncology and Pathology
Abbreviation	Ocul. Oncol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	2296-4681
ISSN (online)	2296-4657
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