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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Makalowski, W.: ‘Genomics. Not junk after all’Science, 2003, 300, (5623), pp. 1246–1247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forget, A.L., Kowalczykowski, S.C.: ‘Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search’Nature, 2012, 482, (7385), pp. 423–427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaimi, K., Ishak, A., Pop, I.: ‘Boundary layer flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 4404.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wisotzki, L., Bacon, R., Brinchmann, J., et al.: ‘Nearly all the sky is covered by Lyman-α emission around high-redshift galaxies’Nature, 2018, 562, (7726), pp. 229–232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonald, T., Feuillet, M.: ‘Network Performance Analysis’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2011)

An edited book

Cleophas, T.J.: ‘SPSS for Starters: SPSS for Starters’ (Springer Netherlands, 2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Hoggard, B.: ‘Witch Bottles: Their Contents, Contexts and Uses’, in Hutton, R. (Ed.): ‘Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic’ (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016), pp. 91–105

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

Hale, T.: ‘20,000 Volts Of Electrical Energy Plus A Watermelon Creates A Wonderful Bang’, 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: ‘A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: Health’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bergh, P.A.: ‘Reconfiguring academic priorities: Through the eyes of Michigan community college Chief Academic Officers’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

Sisario, B.: ‘Drake’s “More Life” Is No. 1 for a 2nd Week’New York Times, 2017, p. C3.

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