How to format your references using the Ophthalmic Genetics citation style

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

Gruner SM. Membrane fusion. Caught in the act. Science. 2002;297(5588):1817-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Slessareva JE, Dohlman HG. G protein signaling in yeast: new components, new connections, new compartments. Science. 2006;314(5804):1412-3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bell FI, McEwen IJ, Viney C. Fibre science: supercontraction stress in wet spider dragline. Nature. 2002;416(6876):37.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kakazu E, Kondo Y, Kogure T, Ninomiya M, Kimura O, Ueno Y, Shimosegawa T. Plasma amino acids imbalance in cirrhotic patients disturbs the tricarboxylic acid cycle of dendritic cell. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aquino JA. The International Family Guide to US University Admissions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Popkin JD, ed. The Legacies of Richard Popkin. Vol 198. Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Dave B. Labyrinthine Digital Histories. In: Martens B, Brown A, eds. Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference Held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005. Springer Netherlands; 2005:53-62.

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 Ophthalmic Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. How Hostile Is Space? IFLScience. Published August 7, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-hostile-isspace/

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. Vocational Education: Status in School Year 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change at Secondary Level. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salazar A. Small school, big gains: A case study of urban high school reform. Published online 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

Kishkovsky S. WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE; Russia: Forest Fires Declared as State of Emergency. New York Times. August 3, 2010:A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Ophthalmic Genetics
Abbreviation	Ophthalmic Genet.
ISSN (print)	1381-6810
ISSN (online)	1744-5094
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Ophthalmology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health