How to format your references using the Optical Fiber Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Optical Fiber Technology. 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 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]

E. Pauwels, Communication: Mind the metaphor, Nature 500 (2013) 523–524.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Romanowicz, D. Giardini, Geophysics. The future of permanent seismic networks, Science 293 (2001) 2000–2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Lammert, O. Cleaver, D. Melton, Induction of pancreatic differentiation by signals from blood vessels, Science 294 (2001) 564–567.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Varoon, X. Zhang, B. Elyassi, D.D. Brewer, M. Gettel, S. Kumar, J.A. Lee, S. Maheshwari, A. Mittal, C.-Y. Sung, M. Cococcioni, L.F. Francis, A.V. McCormick, K.A. Mkhoyan, M. Tsapatsis, Dispersible exfoliated zeolite nanosheets and their application as a selective membrane, Science 334 (2011) 72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.J. Ippolito Jr., Satellite Communications Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

H.A. Lawson, D. van Veen, eds., Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-service Schools and Multi-service Schools: International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Du, R. Wang, J. Qu, Spike Train Pattern and Firing Synchronization in a Model of the Olfactory Mitral Cell, in: C. Guo, Z.-G. Hou, Z. Zeng (Eds.), Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2013: 10th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Dalian, China, July 4-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 28–35.

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 Optical Fiber Technology.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, Adélie Penguins Have An Appetite For Jellyfish With Giant Gonads, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/adlie-penguins-have-an-appetite-for-jellyfish-with-giant-gonads/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Glossary of EDP Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Schloesser, Improving services for persons with developmental disabilities through the utilization of person-centered thinking: A grant-writing project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

S. Hollander, The Fading of the Green, New York Times (2009) CY1.

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	Optical Fiber Technology
Abbreviation	Opt. Fiber Technol.
ISSN (print)	1068-5200
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials