How to format your references using the Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection. 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

Coolen MJL (2011) 7000 years of Emiliania huxleyi viruses in the Black Sea. Science 333:451–452

A journal article with 2 authors

Dill KA, MacCallum JL (2012) The protein-folding problem, 50 years on. Science 338:1042–1046

A journal article with 3 authors

Parkinson GN, Lee MPH, Neidle S (2002) Crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA. Nature 417:876–880

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hanan BB, Blichert-Toft J, Pyle DG, Christie DM (2004) Contrasting origins of the upper mantle revealed by hafnium and lead isotopes from the Southeast Indian Ridge. Nature 432:91–94

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2010) The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Xu W, Xiao L, Li J, et al (2016) Computer Engineering and Technology: 20th CCF Conference, NCCET 2016, Xi’an, China, August 10-12, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Corbineau P (2008) A Declarative Language for the Coq Proof Assistant. In: Miculan M, Scagnetto I, Honsell F (eds) Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 69–84

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 Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The World’s Most Spoken Languages And Where They Are Spoken. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) NASA Personnel: Shortages of Scientists and Engineers Due to Retirements Unlikely in the 1990s. 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

Kent L (2017) Justification-Suppression of Gender and Race Bias in Hiring: The Impact of Accountability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Sheehan N (2017) David and Goliath in Vietnam. New York Times SR9

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	Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection
Abbreviation	J. Ophthalmic Inflamm. Infect.
ISSN (online)	1869-5760
Scope	Infectious Diseases Ophthalmology