How to format your references using the Ocular Oncology and Pathology citation style

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

Corbyn Z. Prevention: lessons from a sunburnt country. Nature. 2014 Nov;515(7527):S114-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flowers RM, Farley KA. Response to Comments on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon.” Science. 2013 Apr;340(6129):143.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt MW, Vautravers MJ, Spero HJ. Rapid subtropical North Atlantic salinity oscillations across Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Nature. 2006 Oct;443(7111):561–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

D’Auria G, Peris-Bondia F, Džunková M, Mira A, Collado MC, Latorre A, et al. Active and secreted IgA-coated bacterial fractions from the human gut reveal an under-represented microbiota core. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec;3:3515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannataro M, Guzzi PH. Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Capriz G, Stampacchia G, editors. New Variational Techniques in Mathematical Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Pamies-Juarez L, Oggier F, Datta A. Data Insertion and Archiving in Erasure-Coding Based Large-Scale Storage Systems. In: Hota C, Srimani PK, editors. Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 9th International Conference, ICDCIT 2013, Bhubaneswar, India, February 5-8, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 47–68.

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 Ocular Oncology and Pathology.

Blog post

Hale T. Bizarre Photo Appears To Show Snake EATING Its Way Out Of Another Snake [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov

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. Intercollegiate Athletics: Four-Year Colleges’ Experiences Adding and Discontinuing Teams. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shlapak A. Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County. 2013

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

Chocano C. The Kid’s Table. New York Times. 2014 Mar;MM32.

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	Ocular Oncology and Pathology
Abbreviation	Ocul. Oncol. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	2296-4681
ISSN (online)	2296-4657
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