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

Powell, K., 2003. Inspiration from architecture: building a better scientific rapport. Nature 424, 858–859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schuchmann, K., Müller, V., 2013. Direct and reversible hydrogenation of CO2 to formate by a bacterial carbon dioxide reductase. Science 342, 1382–1385.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khush, R.S., Leulier, F., Lemaitre, B., 2002. Immunology. Pathogen surveillance--the flies have it. Science 296, 273–275.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Robert, A., Sirjean, O., Browaeys, A., Poupard, J., Nowak, S., Boiron, D., Westbrook, C.I., Aspect, A., 2001. A Bose-Einstein condensate of metastable atoms. Science 292, 461–464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Epperlein, P.W., 2013. Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Vaidya, J., 2006. Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Advances in Information Security. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, C.-S., Dang, A., Tong, Z., 2005. A 3D Model of the Inner City of Beijing, in: Martens, B., Brown, A. (Eds.), Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference Held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–72.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Here’s What It Takes To Raise Seriously Smart Kids, According To A 45-Year-Long Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-what-it-takes-to-raise-seriously-smart-kids-according-to-a-45yearlong-study/ (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, 2006. Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (No. GAO-06-653T). 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

Zhu, M., 2017. Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Clarey, C., 2017. American Contingent’s Strength Is in Numbers, and Youth. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Powell, 2003; Schuchmann and Müller, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Schuchmann and Müller, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Robert et al., 2001)

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