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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

R. Rogers, A chemist believes that an ionic liquid is the place for a noxious gas, Nature 454 (2008) 555.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Chouard, L. Venema, Machine intelligence, Nature 521 (2015) 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Hunte, V. Zickermann, U. Brandt, Functional modules and structural basis of conformational coupling in mitochondrial complex I, Science 329 (2010) 448–451.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.H. Kabarowski, K. Zhu, L.Q. Le, O.N. Witte, Y. Xu, Lysophosphatidylcholine as a ligand for the immunoregulatory receptor G2A, Science 293 (2001) 702–705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.D. Waye, J. Aisenberg, P.H. Rubin, Practical Colonoscopy, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A.F. AbuRahma, J.J. Bergan, eds., Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy, Second Edition, Springer, London, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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M. De Marsico, R. Distasi, M. Nappi, D. Riccio, Multiple Traits for People Identification, in: H.T. Sencar, S. Velastin, N. Nikolaidis, S. Lian (Eds.), Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 79–95.

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

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D. Andrew, How To Capture An Asteroid – And Why We Should Go To Such Trouble, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-capture-an-asteroid-and-why-we-should-go-to-such-trouble/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Status of Tax Systems Modernization, Tax Delinquencies, and the Potential for Return-Free Filing, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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R.J. So, Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2010.

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]

J. Koblin, After Search Of 5 Months, CBS Names New Anchor, New York Times (2017) B4.

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