How to format your references using the Computing and Visualization in Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computing and Visualization in Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Carroll, S.B.: Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens. Nature. 422, 849–857 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lynch, M., Conery, J.S.: The origins of genome complexity. Science. 302, 1401–1404 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K.L., Helmstaedter, M., Denk, W.: Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina. Nature. 471, 183–188 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Myllykallio, H., Lipowski, G., Leduc, D., Filee, J., Forterre, P., Liebl, U.: An alternative flavin-dependent mechanism for thymidylate synthesis. Science. 297, 105–107 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reay, D.: Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Kuhn, M.: Applied Predictive Modeling. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Sandau, R.: Calibration. In: Sandau, R. (ed.) Digital Airborne Camera: Introduction and Technology. pp. 261–272. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

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 Computing and Visualization in Science.

Blog post

Fang, J.: How Chameleons Adapted To A Tree-Climbing Lifestyle, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-chameleons-adapted-tree-climbing-lifestyle/

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: DOD Business Transformation: Air Force’s Current Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Byeon, G.: More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed, (2014)

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

Barnes, B., Abrams, R., Kantor, J.: Sharing A Name Of Infamy, (2017)

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	Computing and Visualization in Science
Abbreviation	Comput. Vis. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1432-9360
ISSN (online)	1433-0369
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software General Engineering Modelling and Simulation Theoretical Computer Science