How to format your references using the IET Computer Vision citation style

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

Abbott, A.: ‘WHO plans study of Gulf War fallout’Nature, 2001, 413, (6852), p. 97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landskron, K., Ozin, G.A.: ‘Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas’Science, 2004, 306, (5701), pp. 1529–1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V.: ‘Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province’Science, 2011, 331, (6023), pp. 1404–1409.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jones, T., Ehardt, C.L., Butynski, T.M., et al.: ‘The highland mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: a new species of African monkey’Science, 2005, 308, (5725), pp. 1161–1164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matloff, R., Chaillou, J.H.: ‘Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013)

An edited book

Saghieh, S., Weinstein, S.L., Hoballah, J.J. (Eds.): ‘Operative Dictations in Orthopedic Surgery’ (Springer, 2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, J., Zhang, X., Su, Q.: ‘Rare Earth Solar Spectral Convertor for Si Solar Cells’, in Liu, R.-S. (Ed.): ‘Phosphors, Up Conversion Nano Particles, Quantum Dots and Their Applications: Volume 2’ (Springer, 2016), pp. 139–166

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 IET Computer Vision.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: ‘US Supreme Court Upholds Use of Controversial Lethal Injection Drug’, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-supreme-court-upholds-use-controversial-lethal-injection-drug/, accessed October 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

Government Accountability Office: ‘Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Leonard, J.M.: ‘The Effect of Manufacturing Establishments on Local Area per Capita Personal Income in the U.S. 1967-1990’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001

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

Kenigsberg, B.: ‘Film Series’New York Times, 2017, p. C20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Computer Vision
Abbreviation	IET Comput. Vis.
ISSN (print)	1751-9632
Scope	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software