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

Service, R.F. NUCLEAR SCIENCE: DOE Drops Plan to Restart Reactor. Science 2000, 290, 1666b–1667b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moine, H.; Mandel, J.L. Biomedicine. Do G Quartets Orchestrate Fragile X Pathology? Science 2001, 294, 2487–2488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sullivan, M.B.; Waterbury, J.B.; Chisholm, S.W. Cyanophages Infecting the Oceanic Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Nature 2003, 424, 1047–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Poizot, P.; Laruelle, S.; Grugeon, S.; Dupont, L.; Tarascon, J.M. Nano-Sized Transition-Metal Oxides as Negative-Electrode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Nature 2000, 407, 496–499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kasper, S.; Montgomery, S. Treatment-Resistant Depression; John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, 2013; ISBN 9781118556719.

An edited book

Warfare Ecology: A New Synthesis for Peace and Security; Machlis, G.E., Hanson, T., Špirić, Z., McKendry, J.E., Eds.; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; ISBN 9789400712133.

A chapter in an edited book

Pombo, O. Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of Unity of Science. In Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science; Symons, J., Pombo, O., Torres, J.M., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp. 59–70 ISBN 9789400701427.

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

Carpineti, C. This Is What Aliens Might Look Like If They Evolved On A Planet That Orbits A Red Dwarf Star Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-is-what-aliens-might-look-like-if-they-evolved-on-a-planet-that-orbits-a-red-dwarf-star/ (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 FAA Safety Inspector Training Survey Data, an E-Supplement to GAO-05-728; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant, D. A Good Story Changes Everything. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2012.

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

Longman, J. For the World’s Best Players, Italy Isn’t the Lure It Once Was. New York Times 2009, B10.

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
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