How to format your references using the Optical Materials Express citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Optical Materials Express. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

J. P. Montoya, "Ocean science. Old new nitrogen," Science 323(5911), 219–220 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

H. D. Suit and H. Willers, "Comment on “Tumor response to radiotherapy regulated by endothelial cell apoptosis” (I)," Science 302(5652), 1894; author reply 1894 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

A. Sambarey, K. Prashanthi, and N. Chandra, "Mining large-scale response networks reveals “topmost activities” in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection," Sci. Rep. 3, 2302 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

A. E. Brent, G. Yucel, S. Small, and C. Desplan, "Permissive and instructive anterior patterning rely on mRNA localization in the wasp embryo," Science 315(5820), 1841–1843 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. R. Dean, Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma, Analytical Techniques in the Sciences (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005).

An edited book

T. Harju, J. Karhumäki, and A. Lepistö, eds., Developments in Language Theory: 11th International Conference, DLT 2007, Turku, Finland, July 3-6, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer, 2007), 4588.

A chapter in an edited book

D. H. Kirkwood, M. Suéry, P. Kapranos, H. V. Atkinson, and K. P. Young, "Introduction and Definitions for Rheology and Modeling," in Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys, M. Suéry, P. Kapranos, H. V. Atkinson, and K. P. Young, eds., Springer Series in Materials Science (Springer, 2010), pp. 43–44.

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 Express.

Blog post

E. Andrew, "Can Genetics Find A ‘Cure’ For Autism?," https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-genetics-find-cure-autism/.

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

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Would Benefit from Risk Assessment and Strategy Updates (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2016).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

C. F. Krau, "A case study of congregational design and implementation of adult Christian education," Doctoral dissertation, Capella University (2008).

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

G. Vecsey, "Even With Yanks Hurting, There’s Usually Pain to Spare for Mets," New York Times (May 28, 2013).

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 Express
ISSN (online)	2159-3930
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