How to format your references using the Displays citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Displays. 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

[1]

J.P.A. Ioannidis, More time for research: fund people not projects, Nature. 477 (2011) 529–531.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Bradshaw, C. Holzapfel, Evolution. Tantalizing timeless, Science. 316 (2007) 1851–1852.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.J. Shaviv, A. Prokoph, J. Veizer, Is the solar system’s galactic motion imprinted in the Phanerozoic climate?, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Li, H. Xu, Y. Zhou, J. Zhang, C. Long, S. Li, S. Chen, J.-M. Zhou, F. Shao, The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family, Science. 315 (2007) 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.J. Fischer, N.S. Treister, A. Pinto, Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. Backert, ed., Inflammasome Signaling and Bacterial Infections, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.B. Sontz, Paragrassmann Algebras as Quantum Spaces Part I: Reproducing Kernels, in: P. Kielanowski, S.T. Ali, A. Odesskii, A. Odzijewicz, M. Schlichenmaier, T. Voronov (Eds.), Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXI Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 24–30, 2012, Springer, Basel, 2013: pp. 47–63.

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 Displays.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, What Caused These Bizarre “Swirls” On The Moon?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/lunar-swirls-ancient-comets/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Oh, Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-metrology, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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

[1]

S. Kishkovsky, Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire, New York Times. (2005) B10.

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	Displays
Abbreviation	Displays
ISSN (print)	0141-9382
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Human-Computer Interaction Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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