How to format your references using the Computer-Aided Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer-Aided Design. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Gangui A. Astronomy. A preposterous universe. Science 2003;299:1333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Clark PU, Mix AC. Ice sheets by volume. Nature 2000;406:689–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lederer WJ, Hagen BM, Zhao G. Cell biology. Superresolution subspace signaling. Science 2012;336:546–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schulteis G, Ahmed SH, Morse AC, Koob GF, Everitt BJ. Conditioning and opiate withdrawal. Nature 2000;405:1013–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ferrant J-L, Gilson M, Jobert S, Mayer M, Montini L, Ouellette M, et al. Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588 in Telecoms. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Groth P, Simperl E, Gray A, Sabou M, Krötzsch M, Lecue F, et al., editors. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2016: 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 9982. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hirz M, Dietrich W, Gfrerrer A, Lang J. Knowledge-Based Design. In: Dietrich W, Gfrerrer A, Lang J, editors. Integrated Computer-Aided Design in Automotive Development: Development Processes, Geometric Fundamentals, Methods of CAD, Knowledge-Based Engineering Data Management, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 309–30.

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 Computer-Aided Design.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Google Shows How Earth Has Changed In The Last 33 Years. IFLScience 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. VA Education Benefits: Student Characteristics and Outcomes Vary across Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jensen ME. A comparison of school psychologists’ and school counselors’ ability to identify cognitive abilities underlying basic academic tasks. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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]

Poniewozik J. The ‘Nasty’ Women of the 1960s. New York Times 2016:C1.

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	Computer-Aided Design
Abbreviation	Comput. Aided Des.
ISSN (print)	0010-4485
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering