How to format your references using the Signal Processing: Image Communication citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Signal Processing: Image Communication. 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

[1]

P. Anderson, Consequences. Perhaps the biotech sector should have employed more philosophers, Nature 405 (2000) 281.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.B. Agnor, D.P. Hamilton, Neptune’s capture of its moon Triton in a binary-planet gravitational encounter, Nature 441 (2006) 192–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.D. Schall, M. Paré, G.F. Woodman, Comment on “Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices,” Science 318 (2007) 44; author reply 44.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Hu, Y. Shibata, C. Voss, T. Shemesh, Z. Li, M. Coughlin, M.M. Kozlov, T.A. Rapoport, W.A. Prinz, Membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum induce high-curvature tubules, Science 319 (2008) 1247–1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Chateigner, Combined Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Kappeler, J. Silk, eds., Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.P. de Albuquerque, H. Isenberg, H. Krumm, P.L. de Geus, Improving the Configuration Management of Large Network Security Systems, in: J. Schönwälder, J. Serrat (Eds.), Ambient Networks: 16th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 36–47.

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 Signal Processing: Image Communication.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, New Methane-Processing Microbes Hint At Common Metabolizing Ancestor, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Indoor Pollution: Status of Federal Research Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Rodriguez, Undocumented students in higher education: A grant project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, 911 Call Is Held as Evidence If Victim Cannot Testify, New York Times (2006) A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Signal Processing: Image Communication
Abbreviation	Signal Process. Image Commun.
ISSN (print)	0923-5965
Scope	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering