How to format your references using the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (JOPT). 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

Gershon D. US Congress encouraged to lay out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners. Nature 2000;405(6786):597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kereszt A, Kondorosi E. Plant science. Unlocking the door to invasion. Science 2011;331(6019):865–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunn EW, Aknin LB, Norton MI. Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science 2008;319(5870):1687–1688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garand E, Zhou J, Manolopoulos DE, et al. Nonadiabatic interactions in the Cl + H2 reaction probed by ClH2- and ClD2- photoelectron imaging. Science 2008;319(5859):72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woods DR. Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG; 2005.

An edited book

Li H. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Early Onset Schizophrenia at School. (Pearrow M, Jimerson SR. eds). Developmental Psychopathology at School. Springer: New York, NY; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown DW, Duchane DV, Heiken G, et al. Planning and Drilling of the Phase II Boreholes. In: Mining the Earth’s Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy. (Duchane DV, Heiken G, Hriscu VT. eds) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012; pp. 237–312.

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 Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. You Can Now View More Than 10,000 High-Res Photos From The Apollo Missions. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-view-8400-high-res-photos-apollo-missions/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Late Seasons and Bag Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watts KS. The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH; 2008.

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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017;C22.

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	Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	J. Ocul. Pharmacol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1080-7683
ISSN (online)	1557-7732
Scope	Ophthalmology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology