How to format your references using the Graphical Models citation style

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

C. Rubbia, Simon van der Meer (1925-2011), Nature 472 (2011) 170.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.S. Sheppard, C.A. Trujillo, A thick cloud of Neptune Trojans and their colors, Science 313 (2006) 511–514.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.S. Hristov, S.D. Miller, C.A. Friehe, Dynamical coupling of wind and ocean waves through wave-induced air flow, Nature 422 (2003) 55–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.N. Coleman, H.B. Stone, J.E. Moulder, T.C. Pellmar, Medicine. Modulation of radiation injury, Science 304 (2004) 693–694.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.K. Jayaweera, Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

P. Kantor, G. Muresan, F. Roberts, D.D. Zeng, F.-Y. Wang, H. Chen, R.C. Merkle, eds., Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19-20, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Sessoms, K. Anyanwu, SkyPackage: From Finding Items to Finding a Skyline of Packages on the Semantic Web, in: H. Takeda, Y. Qu, R. Mizoguchi, Y. Kitamura (Eds.), Semantic Technology: Second Joint International Conference, JIST 2012, Nara, Japan, December 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 49–64.

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 Graphical Models.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Mercury Level In Your Tuna Is Getting Higher, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mercury-level-your-tuna-getting-higher/ (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, From School to Work, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.D. Valenzuela, Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

J.C. McKINLEY Jr, No More Tea With Caligula, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	Graphical Models
Abbreviation	Graph. Models
ISSN (print)	1524-0703
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software Geometry and Topology Modelling and Simulation