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

Fischhoff, B., 2015. The realities of risk-cost-benefit analysis. Science 350, aaa6516.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, Z.R., Long, J.A., 2010. Control of Arabidopsis apical-basal embryo polarity by antagonistic transcription factors. Nature 464, 423–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman, R.T., Nuismer, S.L., Jhwueng, D.-C., 2012. Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature 483, 328–330.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Checkley, D.M., Jr, Dickson, A.G., Takahashi, M., Radich, J.A., Eisenkolb, N., Asch, R., 2009. Elevated CO2 enhances otolith growth in young fish. Science 324, 1683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keene, A., 2013. Keene on the Market. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Drira, K. (Ed.), 2013. Software Architecture: 7th European Conference, ECSA 2013, Montpellier, France, July 1-5, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobayashi, S., 2016. Peatland and Peatland Forest in Brunei Darussalam, in: Osaki, M., Tsuji, N. (Eds.), Tropical Peatland Ecosystems. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 75–89.

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, D., 2017. Here Are The Areas In The Us Most Likely To Be Struck In A Nuclear Attack By Russia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1982. Information Resource Management Problems in the Department of Commerce (No. CED-82-113). 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

Tripamer, A.J., 2013. Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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. Friend Suggests Trump May Fire Special Counsel. 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 (Fischhoff, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fischhoff, 2015; Smith and Long, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Long, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Checkley et al., 2009)

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