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 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]

S. Hestrin, Neuroscience. The strength of electrical synapses, Science 334 (2011) 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.-B. Kwon, B.L. Sabatini, Glutamate induces de novo growth of functional spines in developing cortex, Nature 474 (2011) 100–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Burkett, C.G. Groat, D. Reed, Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast, Science 315 (2007) 1366–1368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Min, S. Lu, S. Chong, R. Roy, G.R. Holtom, X.S. Xie, Imaging chromophores with undetectable fluorescence by stimulated emission microscopy, Nature 461 (2009) 1105–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Epstein, The Elements of Continuum Biomechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

N. Curtis, A. Finn, A.J. Pollard, eds., Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children IX, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Gottschalk, H. Thaler, A Comment on the Infra-Red Problem in the AdS/CFT Correspondence, in: B. Fauser, J. Tolksdorf, E. Zeidler (Eds.), Quantum Field Theory: Competitive Models, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2009: pp. 67–81.

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]

E. Andrew, The 10 Stuff-Ups We All Make When Interpreting Research, 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, Progress of the DD(X) Destroyer Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Wetherington, The relationship between learning organization dimensions and performance in the nonprofit sector, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

B. Rothenberg, With Appeal Over, Sharapova Lobs Criticism at Tennis Leaders, New York Times (2016) B10.

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