How to format your references using the Journal of Vision citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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

Gavaghan, H. (2000). Making moves to redress the gender imbalance. Nature, 405(6787), 715–716.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willimsky, G., & Blankenstein, T. (2005). Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance. Nature, 437(7055), 141–146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gur, I., Sawyer, K., & Prasher, R. (2012). Engineering. Searching for a better thermal battery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6075), 1454–1455.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Martianov, I., Ramadass, A., Serra Barros, A., Chow, N., & Akoulitchev, A. (2007). Repression of the human dihydrofolate reductase gene by a non-coding interfering transcript. Nature, 445(7128), 666–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadwick, P. (2008). Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Logozzo, F., Peled, D. A., & Zuck, L. D. (Eds.). (2008). Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation: 9th International Conference, VMCAI 2008, San Francisco, USA, January 7-9, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 4905). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Barni, M., Bernaschi, M., Lazzeretti, R., Pignata, T., & Sabellico, A. (2014). Parallel Implementation of GC-Based MPC Protocols in the Semi-Honest Setting. In J. Garcia-Alfaro, G. Lioudakis, N. Cuppens-Boulahia, S. Foley, & W. M. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Egham, UK, September 12-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 66–82). Springer.

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 Journal of Vision.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 4). Climate Meme Debunked As The ‘Tropospheric Hot Spot’ Is Found. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Customs Has Established Effective Year 2000 Program Controls (AIMD-99-37). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whited, J. E. (2015). An Investigation of Struggling Learners’ Motivation to Read [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, August 18). A Quiet Place To Start a Revolution. New York Times, F1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan, 2000; Willimsky & Blankenstein, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Willimsky & Blankenstein, 2005)
Three authors: (Gur et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Martianov et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Vision
Abbreviation	J. Vis.
ISSN (online)	1534-7362
Scope	Ophthalmology Sensory Systems