How to format your references using the Computer Vision and Image Understanding citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 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

Dodds, P.N., 2010. Plant science. Genome evolution in plant pathogens. Science 330, 1486–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sotomayor, M., Schulten, K., 2007. Single-molecule experiments in vitro and in silico. Science 316, 1144–1148.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siveter, D.J., Williams, M., Waloszek, D., 2001. A phosphatocopid crustacean with appendages from the Lower Cambrian. Science 293, 479–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, Q., Wu, J., Ou, X., Huang, B., Almutlaq, J., Zhumekenov, A.A., Guan, X., Han, S., Liang, L., Yi, Z., Li, J., Xie, X., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Fan, D., Teh, D.B.L., All, A.H., Mohammed, O.F., Bakr, O.M., Wu, T., Bettinelli, M., Yang, H., Huang, W., Liu, X., 2018. All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystal scintillators. Nature 561, 88–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito, R., 2011. Electrochemical Water Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Asuelime, L., Yaro, J., Francis, S. (Eds.), 2014. Selected Themes in African Development Studies: Economic Growth, Governance and the Environment, Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, D., Yu, X., Rao, J., Yu, L., 2016. Comparative Study on the Status and Strategies of Infrastructure Construction of ICT in Education Between China and the United States, in: Huang, R., Kinshuk, Price, J.K. (Eds.), ICT in Education in Global Context: Comparative Reports of Innovations in K-12 Education, Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 95–106.

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 Vision and Image Understanding.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Prospects Revived For Life Around Low-Mass Stars [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, 2014. A Capsule Version of: Nanomanufacturing--Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health (No. GAO-14-406SP). 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

Bebianno Simoes, M., 2012. Work and social activism in the life stories of Latina domestic workers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Crow, K., 2003. Seeking to Preserve the Site Where a Famed Ancestor Traded. New York Times 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dodds, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dodds, 2010; Sotomayor and Schulten, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sotomayor and Schulten, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Abbreviation	Comput. Vis. Image Underst.
ISSN (print)	1077-3142
Scope	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Software