How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. 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

1. E. Russo, Nature 422, 354 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. J. W. Evans and P. A. Thiel, Science 330, 599 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. H. Ishii, Y. Sakurai, and T. Maruyama, Sci. Rep. 4, 6067 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. R. C. Sinclair, M. M. Mark, S. E. Moore, C. A. Lavis, and A. S. Soldat, Nature 408, 665 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. B. Alberts, A. Johnson, J. Lewis, D. Morgan, M. Raff, K. Roberts, and P. Walter, Molekularbiologie Der Zelle (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017).

An edited book

1. P. Huggenberger and J. Epting, editors , Urban Geology: Process-Oriented Concepts for Adaptive and Integrated Resource Management (Springer, Basel, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

1. I. M. Adjei, B. Sharma, and V. Labhasetwar, in Nanomaterial: Impacts on Cell Biology and Medicine, edited by D. G. Capco and Y. Chen (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014), pp. 73–91.

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 EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.

Blog post

1. E. Andrew, IFLScience (2016).

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, Can Cost Accounting Help Manage the Rising Costs of ADP Operations? (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. C. P. Mahan, First to the Finish Line: A Case Study of First Generation Baccalaureate Degree Completers in the University of Maryland Student Support Services Program, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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. B. Rothenberg, New York Times B13 (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	EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Abbreviation	EURASIP J. Image Video Process.
ISSN (online)	1687-5281
Scope	Information Systems Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering