How to format your references using the Optical Materials citation style

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

I.S. Kohane, HEALTH CARE POLICY. Ten things we have to do to achieve precision medicine, Science 349 (2015) 37–38.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.V. Munshi, E.N. Olson, Translational medicine. Improving cardiac rhythm with a biological pacemaker, Science 345 (2014) 268–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Walker, R.A. Cliff, A.G. Latham, U-Pb isotopic age of the StW 573 hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa, Science 314 (2006) 1592–1594.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Kim, H. Dong, J. Seabaugh, S.W. Newell, D.D. Eberl, Role of microbes in the smectite-to-illite reaction, Science 303 (2004) 830–832.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.J. Dallas, Mastering the Challenges of Leading change, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

K. Wendt, ed., Responsible Investment Banking: Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Estrin, E. Rabkin, R.J. Hellmig, M. Kazakevich, A. Zi, New Applications of the SPD Concept: μSPD, in: Y.T. Zhu, V. Varyukhin (Eds.), Nanostructured Materials by High-Pressure Severe Plastic Deformation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006: pp. 39–46.

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 Materials.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Bill Gates Tells IFLScience How He Plans To Save The World In An Exclusive Interview, IFLScience (2016).

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, Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Wrobleski, The challenge of teen nutrition: An ecological view of socio-cognitive influences on urban, African-American adolescent diet quality, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

C. Yeginsu, P.S. Rao, Malala Yousafzai, Girls’ Advocate Shot by Taliban, Has Been Accepted to Oxford, New York Times (2017) A4.

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 Materials
Abbreviation	Opt. Mater. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0925-3467
Scope	General Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics