How to format your references using the Ophthalmic Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ophthalmic Genetics. 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

Read P. Saturn: storm-clouds brooding on towering heights. Nature. 2011;475(7354):44-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister AM, Sher AV. The origin and evolution of the woolly mammoth. Science. 2001;294(5544):1094-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer K, Williams E, Reutt-Robey J. Autocatalytic oxidation of lead crystallite surfaces. Science. 2002;297(5589):2033-5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee W-L, Watauchi S, Miller VL, Cava RJ, Ong NP. Dissipationless anomalous Hall current in the ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx. Science. 2004;303(5664):1647-9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros N, Diakoumopoulou E, Ioannidis I, Liatis S, Makrilakis K, Tentolouris N, Tsapogas P. Diabetes in Clinical Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Casimiro A, Lemos R de, Gacek C, eds. Architecting Dependable Systems VII. Vol 6420. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Babatunde Y, Low SP. Appraisal of the Relationships Between the Chinese and the Nigerian Construction Industries. In: Low SP, ed. Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance: Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria. Springer; 2015:59-66.

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 Ophthalmic Genetics.

Blog post

Potvin S. This Is What 100 Years Of Selective Breeding Has Done To Dogs. IFLScience. Published June 3, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-is-what-100-years-of-selective-breeding-has-done-to-dogs/

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. Emergency Transportation Relief: Agencies Could Improve Collaboration Begun during Hurricane Sandy Response. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chakravarty S. Harvesting health: Fertilizer, nutrition and AIDS treatment in Kenya. Published online 2009.

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

Isherwood C. British Inmates Learning Lessons, or Not. New York Times. January 15, 2016:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Ophthalmic Genetics
Abbreviation	Ophthalmic Genet.
ISSN (print)	1381-6810
ISSN (online)	1744-5094
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Ophthalmology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health