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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental 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 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

Norreys, P.A., 2010. Physics. Controlling implosion symmetry around a deuterium-tritium target. Science 327, 1208–1210.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rignot, E., Jacobs, S.S., 2002. Rapid bottom melting widespread near Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding lines. Science 296, 2020–2023.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanash, S.M., Pitteri, S.J., Faca, V.M., 2008. Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers. Nature 452, 571–579.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du, C., Falini, G., Fermani, S., Abbott, C., Moradian-Oldak, J., 2005. Supramolecular assembly of amelogenin nanospheres into birefringent microribbons. Science 307, 1450–1454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paoluzzi, A., Pascucci, V., Vicentino, M., Baldazzi, C., Portuesi, S., 2005. Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Piecuch, P., Maruani, J., Delgado-Barrio, G., Wilson, S. (Eds.), 2009. Advances in the Theory of Atomic and Molecular Systems: Conceptual and Computational Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 1st ed, Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, J., Wang, X., 2011. Dynamic Sliding Mode Control, in: Wang, X. (Ed.), Advanced Sliding Mode Control for Mechanical Systems: Design, Analysis and MATLAB Simulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 111–116.

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 Experimental Eye Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. In Praise Of The Humble Fruit Fly, Leading The Way On Cancer Research [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/praise-humble-fruit-fly-leading-way-cancer-research/ (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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Agencies’ Reporting of Mission-Critical Classified Systems (No. AIMD-99-218). 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

Whitesides, V.J., 2017. The Large Ensemble/European Classical Music Paradigm and African American-Originated Dance-Musicking: A Dispositival Analysis of U.S. Secondary Music Education (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. Trump Has Defended His Own Leak. He Has Been Far Less Forgiving of Others. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norreys, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Norreys, 2010; Rignot and Jacobs, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rignot and Jacobs, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Du et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Eye Research
Abbreviation	Exp. Eye Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-4835
Scope	Ophthalmology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Sensory Systems