How to format your references using the IET Optoelectronics citation style

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

Walsh, C.: ‘Enabling the chemistry of life’Nature, 2001, 409, (6817), pp. 226–231.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guth, A.H., Kaiser, D.I.: ‘Inflationary cosmology: exploring the universe from the smallest to the largest scales’Science, 2005, 307, (5711), pp. 884–890.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lassus, P., Opitz-Araya, X., Lazebnik, Y.: ‘Requirement for caspase-2 in stress-induced apoptosis before mitochondrial permeabilization’Science, 2002, 297, (5585), pp. 1352–1354.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mabalirajan, U., Rehman, R., Ahmad, T., et al.: ‘12/15-lipoxygenase expressed in non-epithelial cells causes airway epithelial injury in asthma’Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, p. 1540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rushton, A.: ‘VHDL for Logic Synthesis’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011)

An edited book

Popescu, E., Li, Q., Klamma, R., Leung, H., Specht, M. (Eds.): ‘Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012: 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012. Proceedings’ (Springer, 2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Duindam, V., Macchelli, A., Stramigioli, S., Bruyninckx, H.: ‘Infinite-Dimensional Port-Hamiltonian Systems’, in Macchelli, A., Stramigioli, S., Bruyninckx, H. (Eds.): ‘Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: The Port-Hamiltonian Approach’ (Springer, 2009), pp. 211–271

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 IET Optoelectronics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: ‘Aircraft Contrails Make Clouds Brighter – New Study’, accessed October 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: ‘Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roth, M.M.: ‘Depositional Environment of the Carbonate Cap Rock at the Pine Prairie Field, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana: Implications of Salt Diapirism on Cook Mountain Reservoir Genesis’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017

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

Belson, K., Pilon, M.: ‘Hostility Lingers Over Wittenberg’s Handling of Marathon Cancellation’New York Times, 2012, p. B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Optoelectronics
Abbreviation	IET Optoelectron.
ISSN (print)	1751-8768
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics