How to format your references using the Opto-Electronics Review citation style

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

[1]

S.H. Shi, Amersham Biosciences & Science Prize. AMPA receptor dynamics and synaptic plasticity, Science. 294 (2001) 1851–1852.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.H. Yuspa, E.H. Epstein Jr, Cancer. An anchor for tumor cell invasion, Science. 307 (2005) 1727–1728.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Gitlin, S. Karelsky, R. Andino, Short interfering RNA confers intracellular antiviral immunity in human cells, Nature. 418 (2002) 430–434.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-B. Qian, H. McDonough, F. Boellmann, D.M. Cyr, C. Patterson, CHIP-mediated stress recovery by sequential ubiquitination of substrates and Hsp70, Nature. 440 (2006) 551–555.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.K. Bhattacharyya, Phased Array Antennas, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

I. Zitouni, ed., Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Xie, J.C. Browne, Verification of Component-Based Software Application Families, in: I. Gorton, G.T. Heineman, I. Crnković, H.W. Schmidt, J.A. Stafford, C. Szyperski, K. Wallnau (Eds.), Component-Based Software Engineering: 9th International Symposium, CBSE 2006, Västerås, Sweden, June 29 - July 1, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 50–66.

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-Electronics Review.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Engaging The Public With Science Can Yield Unexpected Rewards, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Information Resellers: Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Adams, A study of childhood eating habits in the United States and their association with race and gender, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

G. Vecsey, Remembering Waitz, a Champion and Companion, New York Times. (2011) B13.

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-Electronics Review
ISSN (print)	1230-3402
Scope

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