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

Stern, P., 2013. The heavily connected brain. Connection, connection, connection... Introduction. Science 342, 577.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shraiman, B.I., Siggia, E.D., 2000. Scalar turbulence. Nature 405, 639–646.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kartal, B., Kuenen, J.G., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., 2010. Engineering. Sewage treatment with anammox. Science 328, 702–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nemani, R.R., Keeling, C.D., Hashimoto, H., Jolly, W.M., Piper, S.C., Tucker, C.J., Myneni, R.B., Running, S.W., 2003. Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999. Science 300, 1560–1563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ohshima, H., 2010. Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Young, R.A., 2011. Transition to Adulthood: Action, Projects, and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolino, A., Bucchiarone, A., Gnesi, S., Muccini, H., 2005. An Architecture-Centric Approach for Producing Quality Systems, in: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (Eds.), Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality: First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005, and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–37.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Eclipsing Binary Could Be A Supernova Model [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, 1997. General Government Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (No. AA-97-28(1)). 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

Sutton, S.R., 2009. Freshman transition programs: Effect on ninth grade student preparedness (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. For Musial, A Birthday And A Medal. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Shraiman and Siggia, 2000; Stern, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shraiman and Siggia, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Nemani et al., 2003)

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