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What a Frontiers in Optics reference looks like

Frontiers in Optics is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

[1] L. S. Babonis and M. Q. Martindale, “A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians,” PNAS 119, e2113701119 (2022).

Book

[1] T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1970).

Web page

[1] IPCC, “Climate change 2021: the physical science basis,” 9 August 2021, <https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/> (15 July 2026).

Journal article with 26 authors

[1] C. R. Harris, K. J. Millman, S. J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, et al., “Array programming with NumPy,” Nature 585, 357–362 (2020).

Frontiers in Optics at a glance

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Used mainly in engineering.
In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 9 authors and shortens the rest.
First names are shortened to initials.
The reference leaves the DOI out.
Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
The style file was last updated in July 2013.

The guide this style follows: frontiersinoptics.com

How Frontiers in Optics compares with IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

Where Frontiers in Optics differs:

For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 9 authors and shortens the rest.
The reference leaves the DOI out.

The same journal article in IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

[1] L. S. Babonis and M. Q. Martindale, “A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians,” PNAS, vol. 119, no. 19, p. e2113701119, May 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Open IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023