How to format your references using the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

J.-M. Lehn, “Toward self-organization and complex matter,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5564, pp. 2400–2403, Mar. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. H. Hyman and K. Simons, “The new cell biology: Beyond HeLa cells,” Nature, vol. 480, no. 7375, p. 34, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. M. Yamashita, D. L. Jones, and M. T. Fuller, “Orientation of asymmetric stem cell division by the APC tumor suppressor and centrosome,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5639, pp. 1547–1550, Sep. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Liu, A. A. Yasseri, J. S. Lindsey, and D. F. Bocian, “Molecular memories that survive silicon device processing and real-world operation,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5650, pp. 1543–1545, Nov. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. A. Hites and J. D. Raff, Elements of Environmental Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. P. T. Krishnan, Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform: A Guide for Developers and Enterprise Architects. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. A. Daniels and M. C. Bradley, “Averted School Rampages,” in Preventing Lethal School Violence, M. C. Bradley, Ed., New York, NY: Springer, 2011, pp. 45–56.

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 IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Scientists Have Sequenced the Coffee Genome!,” IFLScience.

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, “Computer Procurement: FAA’s $1.5-Billion Computer Resources Nucleus Project,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-89-44FS, Mar. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Lingley-Papadopoulos, “Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

[1]

L. F. Burghardt, “An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move,” New York Times, p. 14CN6, Aug. 20, 2006.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Abbreviation	J. Opt. Commun. Netw.
ISSN (print)	1943-0620
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications