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

Brooks, T.M.: Conservation: Mind the gaps. Nature. 516, 336–337 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruglyak, L., Stern, D.L.: Evolution. An embarrassment of switches. Science. 317, 758–759 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, H.J., Crawford, A.C., Fettiplace, R.: Force generation by mammalian hair bundles supports a role in cochlear amplification. Nature. 433, 880–883 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, H.-K., King, S.-K., Liang, J.-S., Wu, P.-S., Lin, L.C.-C., Chiu, J.-L.: Occultation of X-rays from Scorpius X-1 by small trans-neptunian objects. Nature. 442, 660–663 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nazarov, V.E., Radostin, A.V.: Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Erdmann, V.A., Markiewicz, W.T., Barciszewski, J. eds: Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Sadiki, A., Ahmadi, W., Chrigui, M.: Toward the Impact of Fuel Evaporation-Combustion Interaction on Spray Combustion in Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers. Part II: Influence of High Combustion Temperature on Spray Droplet Evaporation. In: Merci, B., Roekaerts, D., and Sadiki, A. (eds.) Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Diluted Spray Turbulent Combustion: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion. pp. 111–132. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

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

Andrew, E.: Global Report Shows How To Beat The World’s Biggest Killers, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/global-report-shows-how-beat-world-s-biggest-killers/

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: Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program. 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

Parajuli, B.: Students’ Motivations towards Volunteerism: A Comparative Study of the United States and Nepal, (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

Cowen, T.: From Colonial India, Lessons for a Changed Economy, (2014)

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