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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Japanese 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 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. Lu S. Zn2+ blocks annealing of complementary single-stranded DNA in a sequence-selective manner. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5464.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dohoney KM, Gelles J. Chi-sequence recognition and DNA translocation by single RecBCD helicase/nuclease molecules. Nature. 2001;409:370–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fiske ST, Harris LT, Cuddy AJC. Social psychology. Why ordinary people torture enemy prisoners. Science. 2004;306:1482–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Katra I, Arotsker L, Krasnov H, Zaritsky A, Kushmaro A, Ben-Dov E. Richness and diversity in dust stormborne biomes at the southeast mediterranean. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pelto M. Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. McCluggage WG. Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix. Tidy J, Smith JHF, editors. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sirenko YK, Ström S. Modeling and Analysis of Transients in Periodic Structures: Fully Absorbing Boundaries for 2-D Open Problems. In: Sirenko YK, Ström S, editors. Modern Theory of Gratings: Resonant Scattering: Analysis Techniques and Phenomena. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 211–333.

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 Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Some Spectacular SEM Images Of The Microscopic World. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Social Security Administration: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Information Technology Challenges Facing the Commissioner. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jul. Report No.: AIMD-98-235R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. De la Rosa-Carrillo EL. On the language of Internet Memes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2015.

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. Woideck G. Buddha Provides Tap Shoes. New York Times. 2016 May 13;A14.

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	Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
Abbreviation	Jpn. J. Ophthalmol.
ISSN (print)	0021-5155
ISSN (online)	1613-2246
Scope	General Medicine Ophthalmology