How to format your references using the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 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]

H. H. Thorp, “CHEMISTRY: Harnessing the Power of Diatomics,” Science, vol. 289, no. 5481, pp. 882–883, Aug. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. R. Olsen and R. I. Wilson, “Lateral presynaptic inhibition mediates gain control in an olfactory circuit,” Nature, vol. 452, no. 7190, pp. 956–960, Apr. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.-S. Yang, C. Lao, and A. H. Zewail, “4D electron diffraction reveals correlated unidirectional behavior in zinc oxide nanowires,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5896, pp. 1660–1664, Sep. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Zhou et al., “Light manipulation for organic optoelectronics using bio-inspired moth’s eye nanostructures,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4040, Feb. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V. Cicek and B. Al-Numan, Corrosion Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. Candy and S. Ferguson, Eds., Interactive Experience in the Digital Age: Evaluating New Art Practice. in Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. R. Britto and N. Sarapa, “Clinical QTc Assessment in Oncology,” in Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Problems and Challenges in Oncology, Volume 4, P. L. Bonate and D. R. Howard, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 77–106.

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 Photonics Technology Letters.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “12-Year-Old Receives First 3D Printed Vertebra Implant,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/12-year-old-receives-first-3d-printed-vertebra-implant/

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, “Analysis of Data for Exports Regulated by the Department of Commerce,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-197R, Nov. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Q. Quiros, “SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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]

K. M. Folkers, “The Millennials’ S.T.D.?,” New York Times, p. SR5, Aug. 20, 2016.

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 Photonics Technology Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1041-1135
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics