How to format your references using the Vision citation style

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

Schekman, R.W. Retrospective: George E. Palade (1912-2008). Science 2008, 322, 695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhaskaran, H.; Russell, R. Kinetic Redistribution of Native and Misfolded RNAs by a DEAD-Box Chaperone. Nature 2007, 449, 1014–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lind, P.A.; Berg, O.G.; Andersson, D.I. Mutational Robustness of Ribosomal Protein Genes. Science 2010, 330, 825–827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fielding, E.J.; Lundgren, P.R.; Bürgmann, R.; Funning, G.J. Shallow Fault-Zone Dilatancy Recovery after the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran. Nature 2009, 458, 64–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson, M. A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119033035.

An edited book

Hydrosilylation: A Comprehensive Review on Recent Advances; Marciniec, B., Ed.; Advances In Silicon Science; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; Vol. 1; ISBN 9781402081712.

A chapter in an edited book

Haskell, J.D. Hugo Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of International Law: Secularism, Liberalism, and the Politics of Restatement and Denial. In New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences; Beneyto, J.M., Kennedy, D., Eds.; T. M. C. Asser Press: The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013; pp. 123–150 ISBN 9789067048781.

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 Vision.

Blog post

Hale, T. Greek City Trials Eco-Friendly Driverless Buses (accessed on 30 October 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 Review of Yolo County, California, Economic Opportunity Commission Concerning Matters Affecting Local Poverty Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1981;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holloway, C.M. Evaluating Five Leadership Traits in the Rising Stars Succession Planning Program. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2015.

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

Sisario, B. Dylan’s Tapes Find a Direction Home. New York Times 2016, C1.

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	Vision
Abbreviation	Vision (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2411-5150
Scope