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 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

[1]

J. Marino, On the road again, Science 344 (2014) 1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Siller, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. steven.siller@zoo.ox.ac.uk, Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex, Nature 411 (2001) 689–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.B. Catrysse, V. Liu, S. Fan, Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Ohno, K. Sakumi, R. Fukumura, M. Furuichi, Y. Iwasaki, M. Hokama, T. Ikemura, T. Tsuzuki, Y. Gondo, Y. Nakabeppu, 8-oxoguanine causes spontaneous de novo germline mutations in mice, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.T. Rim, C. Mi, Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles and Mobile Devices, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

J.C. Shin, B.M. Kehm, eds., Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Caron, U. Rabe, J. Rödel, W. Arnold, Near-Field Acoustical Imaging using Lateral Bending Mode of Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers, in: M.P. André, I. Akiyama, M. Andre, W. Arnold, J. Bamber, V. Burov, N. Chubachi, K. Erikson, H. Ermert, M. Fink, W.S. Gan, B. Granz, J. Greenleaf, J. Hu, J.P. Jones, P. Khuri-Yakub, P. Laugier, H. Lee, S. Lees, V.M. Levin, R. Maev, L. Masotti, A. Nowicki, W. O’Brien, M. Prasad, P. Rafter, D. Rouseff, J. Thijssen, B. Tittmann, P. Tortoli, A.V. der Steen, R. Waag, P. Wells (Eds.), Acoustical Imaging, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 31–41.

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]

E. Andrew, Man sues NASA for failing to investigate “alien life” on Mars, IFLScience (2014).

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, School Bus Safety: Crash Data Trends and Federal and State Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Oteng, Enquête sur la Pluralité Culturelle: Identité et Marginalisation dans le Roman Francophone Colonial et Postcolonial (Chraïbi, Kane, Kourouma, Boudjedra, Ben Jelloun), Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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]

B. Brantley, Inside Hamlet, New York Times (2017) C1.

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