How to format your references using the Opto-Electronic Advances citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Opto-Electronic Advances. 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

Edlin, B. R. Perspective: test and treat this silent killer. Nature 474, S18-9 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloch, G. & Robinson, G. E. Chronobiology. Reversal of honeybee behavioural rhythms. Nature 410, 1048 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bollasina, M. A., Ming, Y. & Ramaswamy, V. Anthropogenic aerosols and the weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon. Science 334, 502–505 (2011).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Yuan, S.-J., He, H., Sheng, G.-P., Chen, J.-J., Tong, Z.-H., et al. A photometric high-throughput method for identification of electrochemically active bacteria using a WO3 nanocluster probe. Sci. Rep. 3, 1315 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan, S. Y. Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography. (John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012).

An edited book

Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following. vol. 111 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Britain, S. On the Relationship Between Pedagogical Design and Content Management in eLearning. in Content Management for E-Learning (eds. Ferrer, N. F. & Alfonso, J. M.) 55–69 (Springer, New York, NY, 2011).

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 Opto-Electronic Advances.

Blog post

Andrews, R. ‘Stone Age’ Of The Macaques Dates Back Half A Century. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stone-age-of-the-macaques-dates-back-half-a-century/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Federal-Aid Highway Program: Impact of the District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act. (1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marroquin Salvador, M. D. Hypervelocity Impact of Spherical Aluminum 2017-T4 Projectiles on Aluminum 6061-T6 Multi-Layered Sheets. (Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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

Kenigsberg, B. The Layover. New York Times C7 (2017).

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	Opto-Electronic Advances
ISSN (print)	2096-4579
Scope