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]

Q. Schiermeier, G8 climate target questioned, Nature. 460 (2009) 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.P. Koh, D.S. Wilcove, Cashing in palm oil for conservation, Nature. 448 (2007) 993–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.R. Roscioli, L.R. McCunn, M.A. Johnson, Quantum structure of the intermolecular proton bond, Science. 316 (2007) 249–254.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Pearce, J. Mintseris, J. Ferreyra, S.P. Gygi, K.H. Darwin, Ubiquitin-like protein involved in the proteasome pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Science. 322 (2008) 1104–1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Tebbani, F. Lopes, R. Filali, D. Dumur, D. Pareau, CO 2 Biofixation by Microalgae, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M.-C.T. Calderer, E.M. Terentjev, eds., Modeling of Soft Matter, Springer, New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Shakarian, V.S. Subrahmanian, J.P. Dickerson, Geospatial Abduction with Adaptive Adversaries, in: V.S. Subrahmanian (Ed.), Geospatial Abduction: Principles and Practice, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 93–146.

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]

A. Carpineti, Diesel Fumes Make It Difficult For Bees To Recognize Scents, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diesel-fumes-make-it-difficult-bees-recognize-scents/ (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, Automated Information Systems Security in Federal Civil Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

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. Roth, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, Gregorius and Judge Deliver Major Blows as Yanks Top Mets Again, New York Times. (2017) B12.

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