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

Angell CA (2008) Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glass-forming properties. Science 319:582–587

A journal article with 2 authors

Giovannoni SJ, Vergin KL (2012) Seasonality in ocean microbial communities. Science 335:671–676

A journal article with 3 authors

Batey RT, Gilbert SD, Montange RK (2004) Structure of a natural guanine-responsive riboswitch complexed with the metabolite hypoxanthine. Nature 432:411–415

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang Y, Kuybeda O, de Waal PW, et al (2018) Publisher Correction: Cryo-EM structure of human rhodopsin bound to an inhibitory G protein. Nature 561:E44

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burger M, Graeber B, Schindlmayr G (2014) Managing Energy Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Barbé E, Costa O, Kissack R (eds) (2016) EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

González-Navarro FF, Belanche-Muñoz LA (2011) Parsimonious Selection of Useful Genes in Microarray Gene Expression Data. In: Arabnia HR, Tran Q-N (eds) Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems. Springer, New York, NY, pp 45–55

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

Davis J (2015) The Seasons Affect How Your Genes Work. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/seasons-affect-how-your-genes-work/. 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 (2005) Higher Education: Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programs and Related Trends. 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

Moody VJ (2012) Examining leadership styles and employee engagement in the public and private sectors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Ford Fessenden; Kate, Reporting LSC (2007) Long Island Aid Comes at Westchester’s Expense. New York Times 14WC5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Angell 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Angell 2008; Giovannoni and Vergin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Giovannoni and Vergin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2018)

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

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