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

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

Alonso J-M (2006) Neuroscience. Neurons find strength through synchrony in the brain. Science 312:1604–1605

A journal article with 2 authors

van Enk SJ, Kimble HJ (2005) Comment on “Quantum state transfer between matter and light.” Science 309:1187; author reply 1187

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann C, Myhr KL, Wong ROL (2002) Transmitter-evoked local calcium release stabilizes developing dendrites. Nature 418:177–181

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Loewen CJR, Gaspar ML, Jesch SA, et al (2004) Phospholipid metabolism regulated by a transcription factor sensing phosphatidic acid. Science 304:1644–1647

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan J-F (2014) Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 3. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Giannotti F, Pedreschi D (eds) (2008) Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Horwich A, Ross G (2008) Circulating Tumor Markers. In: Bronchud MH, Foote MA, Giaccone G, et al. (eds) Principles of Molecular Oncology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 107–116

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 Visualization.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Keep Your Local Orbit Tidy – Two Techniques For Tackling The Problem Of Space Junk. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) Federal Research: Super Collider Estimates and Germany’s Industrially Produced Magnets. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rooks DL (2009) Science for all: Experiences and outcomes of students with visual impairment in a guided inquiry-based classroom. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Mueller B, Schweber N (2015) Driver Arrested After Bus Fatally Strikes Pedestrian. New York Times A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alonso 2006).
This sentence cites two references (van Enk and Kimble 2005; Alonso 2006).

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

Two authors: (van Enk and Kimble 2005)
Three or more authors: (Loewen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Visualization
Abbreviation	J. Vis. (Tokyo)
ISSN (print)	1343-8875
ISSN (online)	1875-8975
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics