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

Shimada, T. (2014). A universal transition in the robustness of evolving open systems. Scientific reports, 4, 4082.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch, H. M., & Clayton, J. (2007). Cell biology: close-up on cell biology. Nature, 446(7138), 937–940.

A journal article with 3 authors

Preusser, F., Radies, D., & Matter, A. (2002). A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in Southern Arabia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), 2018–2020.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Walther, P., Pan, J.-W., Aspelmeyer, M., Ursin, R., Gasparoni, S., & Zeilinger, A. (2004). De Broglie wavelength of a non-local four-photon state. Nature, 429(6988), 158–161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meghouar, H. (2016). Corporate Takeover Targets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Russell, I. (Ed.). (2006). Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Fox, J. J., & Bartholomae, S. (2008). Financial Education and Program Evaluation. In J. J. Xiao (Ed.), Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (pp. 47–68). New York, NY: Springer.

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. (2014, September 16). Ancient Computer Found In Roman Shipwreck. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-shipwreck-expedition-may-unlock-secrets-worlds-oldest-computer/. 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. (1982). Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (No. FPCD-83-23). 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

Spotts, S. L. (2017). A Comparative Analysis of Missouri Elementary School Arts Curriculums (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, June 2). Delightful in Their Depravity. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shimada 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Birch and Clayton 2007; Shimada 2014).

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

Two authors: (Birch and Clayton 2007)
Three or more authors: (Walther et al. 2004)

About the journal

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