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

G. E. Blomgren, "Electrochemistry. Making a potential difference," Nature 407(6805), 681–682 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Z. M. Hudson and I. Manners, "Chemistry. Assembly and disassembly of ferrocene-based nanotubes," Science 344(6183), 482–483 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

H. Bao, S. Yu, and D. Q. Tong, "Massive volcanic SO(2) oxidation and sulphate aerosol deposition in Cenozoic North America," Nature 465(7300), 909–912 (2010).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

P. A. Futreal, A. Kasprzyk, E. Birney, J. C. Mullikin, R. Wooster, and M. R. Stratton, "Cancer and genomics," Nature 409(6822), 850–852 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

K. Xiong, Resource Optimization and Security for Cloud Services (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014).

An edited book

H. I. Ling, L. Callisto, D. Leshchinsky, and J. Koseki, eds., Soil Stress-Strain Behavior: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis: A Collection of Papers of the Geotechnical Symposium in Rome, March 16–17, 2006, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (Springer Netherlands, 2007), 146.

A chapter in an edited book

H. Rhee, S. Park, S. A. Sarapuloff, S. W. Han, and J. H. Park, "Frequency Tuning of a Wineglass Resonator Based on Acoustic Testing," in Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, E. Wee Sit, ed., Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series (Springer International Publishing, 2015), pp. 31–35.

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

K. Evans, "World’s First Lab-Grown Chicken Has Been Tasted And Apparently It’s Delicious," .

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, Transportation Financing: Challenges in Meeting Long-Term Funding Needs for FAA, Amtrak, and the Nation’s Highways (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

K. A. Bradley, "A Tennessee Irish Picnic: Foodways and Complex Community Dynamics," Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana (2014).

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, "Ryan Tries to Flatten A Persistent Opponent," New York Times (March 16, 2010).

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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