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

Freeman M (2000) Feedback control of intercellular signalling in development. Nature 408:313–319

A journal article with 2 authors

Hartley RR, Behringer RP (2003) Logarithmic rate dependence of force networks in sheared granular materials. Nature 421:928–931

A journal article with 3 authors

Bush MB, Silman MR, Urrego DH (2004) 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hot spot. Science 303:827–829

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jiang Y, Lee A, Chen J, et al (2002) Crystal structure and mechanism of a calcium-gated potassium channel. Nature 417:515–522

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pepper G, Oliver MJ (2006) The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Dang TK, Morvan F (eds) (2014) Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems: 7th International Conference, Globe 2014, Munich, Germany, September 2-3, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Costa EP, Lorena AC, Carvalho ACPLF, Freitas AA (2008) Top-Down Hierarchical Ensembles of Classifiers for Predicting G-Protein-Coupled-Receptor Functions. In: Bazzan ALC, Craven M, Martins NF (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, Santo André, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–46

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

Hamilton K (2016) Addicted To Oil: US Gasoline Consumption Is Higher Than Ever. 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 (1981) Comments on Proposed FPR Subpart. 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

Chongkrairatanakul W (2012) Foreign-educated nurses. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2016) Mets Quickly Lose Niese to Injury but Still Get a Win. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freeman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman 2000; Hartley and Behringer 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hartley and Behringer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2002)

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