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

Beutler, E., 2004. Cell biology. “Pumping” iron: the proteins. Science 306, 2051–2053.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulze-Lefert, P., Bieri, S., 2005. Plant sciences. Recognition at a distance. Science 308, 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Isaacs, F.J., Blake, W.J., Collins, J.J., 2005. Molecular biology. Signal processing in single cells. Science 307, 1886–1888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuan, G.-C., Liu, Y.-J., Dion, M.F., Slack, M.D., Wu, L.F., Altschuler, S.J., Rando, O.J., 2005. Genome-scale identification of nucleosome positions in S. cerevisiae. Science 309, 626–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sokhanvar, S., Dargahi, J., Najarian, S., Arbatani, S., 2012. Tactile Sensing and Displays. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bergemann, N., Riecher-Rössler, A. (Eds.), 2005. Estrogen Effects in Psychiatric Disorders. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Alem, L., Huang, W., 2015. Supporting Frontline Health Workers Through the Use of a Mobile Collaboration Tool, in: Yin, X., Ho, K., Zeng, D., Aickelin, U., Zhou, R., Wang, H. (Eds.), Health Information Science: 4th International Conference, HIS 2015, Melbourne, Australia, May 28-30, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 31–36.

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., 2015. Do Aliens Exist? SETI Video Explores The Chances Of Making First Contact [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2011. Green Information Technology: Agencies Have Taken Steps to Implement Requirements, but Additional Guidance on Measuring Performance Needed (No. GAO-11-638). 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

Hartl, S.D., 2012. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making (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

Billard, M., 2010. Check In /Check Out; MIAMI BEACH, FLA.: Soho Beach House. New York Times TR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beutler, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Beutler, 2004; Schulze-Lefert and Bieri, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schulze-Lefert and Bieri, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2005)

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