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

Hyatt, L. A. (2012). IBI* series winner. Personal plants: making botany meaningful by experimentation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6102), 1620–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottlieb, R. A., & Bernstein, D. (2015). METABOLISM. Mitochondria shape cardiac metabolism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1162–1163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan, X., Xiao, S., & Taylor, T. N. (2005). Lichen-like symbiosis 600 million years ago. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5724), 1017–1020.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

van der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Collatz, G. J., Giglio, L., Kasibhatla, P. S., Arellano, A. F., Jr, et al. (2004). Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5654), 73–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski, E. J. (2009). Managing Hedge Fund Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Şener, B. (Ed.). (2009). Innovations in Chemical Biology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Favorskaya, M., Kozlova, Y., Tweedale, J. W., & Jain, L. C. (2015). Evaluation of Student Knowledge Using an e-Learning Framework. In D. Sharma, M. Favorskaya, L. C. Jain, & R. J. Howlett (Eds.), Fusion of Smart, Multimedia and Computer Gaming Technologies: Research, Systems and Perspectives (pp. 91–114). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, June 13). Test Track To Be Built For Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Train. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-and-fastest-train-earth/. 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. (2014). NASA: Human Space Exploration Programs Face Challenges (No. GAO-15-248T). 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

Dhokar, A. (2015). LabVIEW based simulation and animation for the vibration control of active mass damper (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Koblin, J., & Shea, C. D. (2017, April 13). Outing of ‘Survivor’ Contestant That Set Off an Uproar Was Shot Months Ago. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hyatt 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gottlieb and Bernstein 2015; Hyatt 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gottlieb and Bernstein 2015)
Three or more authors: (van der Werf et al. 2004)

About the journal

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