How to format your references using the Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications. 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]

P. Agre, The family naturalist, Nature 467 (2010) S11.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.S. Shcheka, H. Keppler, The origin of the terrestrial noble-gas signature, Nature 490 (2012) 531–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Berkhout, A.T. Das, N. Beerens, HIV-1 RNA editing, hypermutation, and error-prone reverse transcription, Science 292 (2001) 7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-E. Hugonnet, L.W. Tremblay, H.I. Boshoff, C.E. Barry 3rd, J.S. Blanchard, Meropenem-clavulanate is effective against extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Science 323 (2009) 1215–1218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Medhurst, A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

D. Hernández-Hernández, J.A. Minjárez-Sosa, eds., Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems: In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Megha, U. Basu, M.H. Rahman, N.N.V. Kav, The Role of Long Non-coding RNAs in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants, in: G.K. Pandey (Ed.), Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2, Springer, New York, NY, 2015: pp. 93–106.

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 Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, This Year’s Ig Nobel Prize Winners Are As Bonkers As Ever, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-years-ig-nobel-prize-winners-bonkers-ever/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Highway Safety Research and Development--Better Management Can Make It More Useful, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Evans, Long-Term Sustainability of Surgical Operational Improvements Post Consultancy: A Multiple Case Study Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 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

[1]

A. Correal, S. Schmidt, Pain and Anxiety Linger in Aftermath of a Blast, New York Times (2016) A26.

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	Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
Abbreviation	Comput. Geom.
ISSN (print)	0925-7721
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics Control and Optimization Geometry and Topology