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

Tokura, Y.: Materials science. Multiferroics as quantum electromagnets. Science. 312, 1481–1482 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Muoio, D.M., Newgard, C.B.: Biomedicine. Insulin resistance takes a trip through the ER. Science. 306, 425–426 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos, F.C., Santos, M.D., Pacheco, J.M.: Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Nature. 454, 213–216 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mundil, R., Ludwig, K.R., Metcalfe, I., Renne, P.R.: Age and timing of the Permian mass extinctions: U/Pb dating of closed-system zircons. Science. 305, 1760–1763 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M.M.: Spacecraft Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Muehlbauer, G.J., Feuillet, C. eds: Genetics and Genomics of the Triticeae. Springer US, New York, NY (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

De Toni, A., Nassimbeni, G.: A Model of Codesign Relationships: Definitions and Contingencies. A Review and Outlook. In: Bartezzaghi, E., Cagliano, R., Caniato, F., and Ronchi, S. (eds.) A Journey through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research: A Tribute to Professor Gianluca Spina. pp. 113–137. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

O`Callaghan, J.: Distant Exoplanets Around Other Stars More Likely To Be Ice Giants Like Neptune

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: Federal Communications Commission: Facilitate the Development and Use of the Universal Licensing System in the Wireless Telecommunications Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meng, W.: Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components, (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

Oestreich, J.R.: A Sequel of Sorts, Made to Challenge Singers, (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