How to format your references using the Current Eye Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Astudillo Besnier P. Chile needs better science governance and support. Nature. 2014 Jul 24;511(7510):385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kumar S, Vaux DL. Apoptosis. A cinderella caspase takes center stage. Science. 2002 Aug 23;297(5585):1290–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cardinale BJ, Palmer MA, Collins SL. Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation. Nature. 2002 Jan 24;415(6870):426–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Duke AR, Jenkins MW, Lu H, McManus JM, Chiel HJ, Jansen ED. Transient and selective suppression of neural activity with infrared light. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener E. Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2003.

An edited book

Aalen OO. Survival and Event History Analysis: A Process Point of View. Borgan Ø, Gjessing HK, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. XVIII, 540 p. (Statistics for Biology and Health).

A chapter in an edited book

Venancio RB, Oliveira LS, Ribeiro RS, Debs CL, Patrocínio AC. Actions for Implementation Program of Image Quality of Mammography. In: Jaffray DA, editor. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 18–21. (IFMBE Proceedings).

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 Current Eye Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K. How An Army Of “Super Recognizers” Could Help Spot Criminals And Missing Persons. IFLScience. 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. Survey of the Pricing of a NASA Contract with Eldec Corporation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 May. Report No.: 089013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yao D. In situ activity of NAC11-7 roseobacters in coastal waters off the Chesapeake Bay based on ftsZ expression [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Brantley B, Green J. Critics at War? Yes. But Agreeing, Too. New York Times. 2017 Jun 22;C1.

In-text citations

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

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	Current Eye Research
Abbreviation	Curr. Eye Res.
ISSN (print)	0271-3683
ISSN (online)	1460-2202
Scope	Ophthalmology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Sensory Systems