How to format your references using the Visualization in Engineering citation style

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

Hoag, H. (2003). Coal-fired power plant to bury issue of emissions. Nature, 422(6927), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thibault, P., & Menzel, A. (2013). Reconstructing state mixtures from diffraction measurements. Nature, 494(7435), 68–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burstein, G. T., Hutchings, I. M., & Sasaki, K. (2000). Electrochemically induced annealing of stainless-steel surfaces. Nature, 407(6806), 885–887.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rafael, M. E., Taylor, T., Magill, A., Lim, Y.-W., Girosi, F., & Allan, R. (2006). Reducing the burden of childhood malaria in Africa: the role of improved. Nature, 444 Suppl 1, 39–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Almeida, J. P. M., & Maunder, E. A. W. (2017). Equilibrium Finite Element Formulations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pacheco, A., Santos, R., Oliveira, M. do R., & Paulino, C. D. (Eds.). (2014). New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrzejewski, K., Rovenski, V., & Walczak, P. (2014). Integral Formulas in Foliation Theory. In V. Rovenski & P. Walczak (Eds.), Geometry and its Applications (pp. 73–82). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Visualization in Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, June 14). Cuckoo Finches Spend Their Whole Lives Disguised As Other Birds. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 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. (2016). West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts (No. GAO-17-23). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunn, T. N. (2014). A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., & Herszenhorn, D. M. (2012, August 9). Punk Band’s Moscow Trial Offers Platform for Orthodox Protesters. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003; Thibault and Menzel 2013).

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

Two authors: (Thibault and Menzel 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rafael et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Visualization in Engineering
Abbreviation	Vis. Eng.
ISSN (online)	2213-7459
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