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

Highfield, R.: ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Selling Science to the Public. Science. 289, 59 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Arim, M., Barbosa, O.: Humped pattern of diversity: fact or artifact? Science. 297, 1763; discussion 1763 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Voog, J., D’Alterio, C., Jones, D.L.: Multipotent somatic stem cells contribute to the stem cell niche in the Drosophila testis. Nature. 454, 1132–1136 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Simon, A.F., Shih, C., Mack, A., Benzer, S.: Steroid control of longevity in Drosophila melanogaster. Science. 299, 1407–1410 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, J., Tao, D.: Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Schulte, C. ed: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 19th International Conference, CP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Harutyunyan, A.: A Fast Algorithm for Powerful Alliances in Trees. In: Wu, W. and Daescu, O. (eds.) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 4th International Conference, COCOA 2010, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, December 18-20, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 31–40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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

Luntz, S.: Astronomers Spot Millions Of Stars Forming In Small Nearby Galaxy

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: Aviation Safety Hazards. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rooks, D.L.: Science for all: Experiences and outcomes of students with visual impairment in a guided inquiry-based classroom, (2009)

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

Barron, J.: Hell Gate Bridge, a Rail Span and a Fine Place to Hide From Zombies, Turns 100, (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

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