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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Aided Geometric 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

Kleppner, D., 2008. Physics. A milestone in time keeping. Science 319, 1768–1769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galonić, D.P., Gin, D.Y., 2007. Chemical glycosylation in the synthesis of glycoconjugate antitumour vaccines. Nature 446, 1000–1007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, K.M., Rog, O., Cooper, J.P., 2006. Semi-conservative DNA replication through telomeres requires Taz1. Nature 440, 824–828.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Riel, D., Munster, V.J., de Wit, E., Rimmelzwaan, G.F., Fouchier, R.A.M., Osterhaus, A.D.M.E., Kuiken, T., 2006. H5N1 Virus Attachment to Lower Respiratory Tract. Science 312, 399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Praetorius, S., Schößer, B., 2016. Bentonithandbuch. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Zhou, M., 2012. Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Diop, A., Qi, Y., Wang, Q., 2014. An Efficient and Secure Session Key Management Scheme for Cluster Based Wireless Sensors Networks, in: Zu, Q., Vargas-Vera, M., Hu, B. (Eds.), Pervasive Computing and the Networked World: Joint International Conference, ICPCA/SWS 2013, Vina Del Mar, Chile, December 5-7, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–44.

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 Geometric Design.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Troubling Times for Tigers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/troubling-times-tigers/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2012. Aviation Safety: FAA Is Taking Steps to Improve Data, but Challenges for Managing Safety Risks Remain (No. GAO-12-660T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Escobedo, K., 2017. Sana Mente Center (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Shear, M.D., Haberman, M., 2017. Volume Rising In Nativist Talk From President. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kleppner, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Galonić and Gin, 2007; Kleppner, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Galonić and Gin, 2007)
Three or more authors: (van Riel et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Aided Geometric Design
Abbreviation	Comput. Aided Geom. Des.
ISSN (print)	0167-8396
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Aerospace Engineering Automotive Engineering Modelling and Simulation