How to format your references using the Progress in Retinal and Eye Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 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

Brookfield, J.F., 2001. Predicting the future. Nature 411, 999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dibner, C., Schibler, U., 2015. METABOLISM. A pancreatic clock times insulin release. Science 350, 628–629.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto, A., White, J.D., Simoneit, B.R.T., 2002. Natural product terpenoids in Eocene and Miocene conifer fossils. Science 297, 1543–1545.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Huang, L., Liu, J., Li, Y., Zhang, G., Kundu, S.C., Wang, L., 2014. Exploring natural silk protein sericin for regenerative medicine: an injectable, photoluminescent, cell-adhesive 3D hydrogel. Sci. Rep. 4, 7064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billingsley, J., 2006. Essentials of Mechatronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Apolloni, B., Marinaro, M., Nicosia, G., Tagliaferri, R. (Eds.), 2006. Neural Nets: 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, June 8-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapin, P., Nowakowski, K., 2016. “A Kind of Bee-Hive”: Thomas Paine and the Pennsylvania Magazine, in: Cleary, S., Stabell, I.L. (Eds.), New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 51–68.

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 Progress in Retinal and Eye Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Fire Tornadoes: One More Way Earth Is Trying To Kill You [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fire-tornadoes-one-more-way-earth-trying-kill-you/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Federal Communications Commission: Use of the 28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands for Local Multipoint Distribution Service (No. OGC-97-40). 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

McNeil, J.N., 2017. “I noticed something wrong”: Lived experiences of women of color who faced a protracted journey to diagnosis with lupus (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Feeney, K., 2009. Fire Up the Grill. New York Times NJ8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brookfield, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Brookfield, 2001; Dibner and Schibler, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dibner and Schibler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Abbreviation	Prog. Retin. Eye Res.
ISSN (print)	1350-9462
Scope	Ophthalmology Sensory Systems