How to format your references using the Eye citation style

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

1. Glass L. Obituary: Arthur T. Winfree (1942-2002). Nature. 2003; 421(6918): 34.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wang K, Kinoshita M. Geophysics. Dangers of being thin and weak. Science. 2013; 342(6163): 1178–1180.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mendoza M, Succi S, Herrmann HJ. Flow through randomly curved manifolds. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3: 3106.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schaefer M, Baker DJ, Gibbons JH, Groat CG, Kennedy D, Kennel CF, et al. Science and government. An Earth systems science agency. Science. 2008; 321(5885): 44–45.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hoffmann K.System Integration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Rosenberger JB ed.Relational Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations: A Relational Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Spiess-Knafl W, Jansen SA. Social Enterprises and the Financing of Different Scaling Strategies. In: Pate L, Wankel C (eds). Emerging Research Directions in Social Entrepreneurship. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. pp. 67–83.

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 Eye.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Make Your Own Graphene With Just a Blender. IFLScience. 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/make-your-own-graphene-just-blender/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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

1. Government Accountability Office.Information Technology Workers: Employment and Starting Salaries. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Salamah H. Potential barriers to seeking medical care: Does obesity and/or self-esteem result in decreased frequency of necessary medical office visits? 2012.

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

1. Fitzgerald A. Worlds in a Cell. New York Times. 2017: BR13.

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	Eye
Abbreviation	EYE
ISSN (print)	0950-222X
ISSN (online)	1476-5454
Scope	Ophthalmology General Arts and Humanities