How to format your references using the World Journal of Ophthalmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Ophthalmology. 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

Anderson DA. A detour for love. Science 2014; 346: 134.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fyke J, Eby M. Comment on ‘Climate sensitivity estimated from temperature reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum’. Science 2012; 337: 1294; author reply 1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rupar PA, Staroverov VN, Baines KM. A cryptand-encapsulated germanium(II) dication. Science 2008; 322: 1360–1363.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Smith JT, Comans RN, Beresford NA, Wright SM, Howard BJ, Camplin WC. Chernobyl’s legacy in food and water. Nature 2000; 405: 141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent J. ADA in Details. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Semmler W, Schwaiger M (eds). Molecular Imaging I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Ncube M, Gumata N, Ndou E. Spillovers from Euro Area Bond Yields into the South African Macro Economy. In: Gumata N, Ndou E, editors. Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016: 67–80.

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 World Journal of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. We Might Be Witnessing The Birth Of An Ice Giant Planet. IFLScience. 2016.

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. Policy Guidance 1963-1986: Interview With Donald J. Horan, Eugene L. Pahl, and Allen R. Voss. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tian CY. Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets. 2010.

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

Hyduk J. Looking to Take a City Where Grubb and Speed Never Did. New York Times. 2016; : B10.

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	World Journal of Ophthalmology
ISSN (online)	2218-6239
Scope