How to format your references using the Computer Aided Geometric Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Aided Geometric Design. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cyranoski, D., 2003. Western Japan: Go west, young postdoc. Nature 424, 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, J.J., Testa, P., 2005. The “solar model problem” solved by the abundance of neon in nearby stars. Nature 436, 525–528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaillard, F., Scaillet, B., Arndt, N.T., 2011. Atmospheric oxygenation caused by a change in volcanic degassing pressure. Nature 478, 229–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Suzuki, H.I., Yamagata, K., Sugimoto, K., Iwamoto, T., Kato, S., Miyazono, K., 2009. Modulation of microRNA processing by p53. Nature 460, 529–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonnell, G., Sheard, D., 2012. A Practical Guide to Decontamination in Healthcare. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Zseby, T., Savola, R., Pistore, M. (Eds.), 2010. Future Internet - FIS 2009: Second Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2009, Berlin, Germany, September 1-3, 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hlaváčková-Schindler, K., Pereverzyev, S., 2015. Lasso Granger Causal Models: Some Strategies and Their Efficiency for Gene Expression Regulatory Networks, in: Guy, T.V., Kárný, M., Wolpert, D.H. (Eds.), Decision Making: Uncertainty, Imperfection, Deliberation and Scalability, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 91–117.

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 Computer Aided Geometric Design.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why Do We Hiccup? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-hiccup/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1977. Review of a Contract for Mobile Radio Sets for the Army (No. PSAD-77-163). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sparks, G.A., 2008. Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influence (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Back to Brooklyn for a U.S. Eagle. New York Times SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski, 2003; Drake and Testa, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Testa, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Suzuki et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Aided Geometric Design
Abbreviation	Comput. Aided Geom. Des.
ISSN (print)	0167-8396
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Aerospace Engineering Automotive Engineering Modelling and Simulation