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]

Sarewitz D. World view: Brick by brick. Nature 2010;465:29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raine NE, Gill RJ. Ecology: Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field. Nature 2015;521:38–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gestwicki JE, Crabtree GR, Graef IA. Harnessing chaperones to generate small-molecule inhibitors of amyloid beta aggregation. Science 2004;306:865–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hsieh Y-W, Huang C-Y, Yang S-Y, Peng Y-H, Yu C-P, Chao P-DL, et al. Oral intake of curcumin markedly activated CYP 3A4: in vivo and ex-vivo studies. Sci Rep 2014;4:6587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wood P. Western Art and the Wider World. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Alonso MJ, Garcia-Fuentes M, editors. Nano-Oncologicals: New Targeting and Delivery Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Donald BR. The Compass That Steered Robotics. In: Constable RL, Silva A, editors. Logic and Program Semantics: Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 50–65.

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]

Andrew E. Flexible Electronic Skin Allows Humans To “Sense” Magnetic Fields. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/flexible-electronic-skin-allows-humans-sense-magnetic-fields/ (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. Opportunity For Savings By Consolidating Photographic Operations At The John F. Kennedy Space Center And The Air Force Eastern Test Range. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1968.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Warren JS. Trust in immediate supervisor, trust in top management, organizational trust precursors: Predictors of organizational effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

Crow K. Sailors’ Quarters, Once 25 Cents. New York Times 2001:143.

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

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