How to format your references using the Journal of Visualization citation style

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

Perez R (2012) Chemistry. Discriminating chemical bonds. Science 337:1305–1306

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi S, Ng DTW (2011) Cell biology. Sensing ER stress. Science 333:1830–1831

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun JC, Beilke JN, Lanier LL (2009) Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells. Nature 457:557–561

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshimoto N, Tatematsu K, Iijima M, et al (2014) High-throughput de novo screening of receptor agonists with an automated single-cell analysis and isolation system. Sci Rep 4:4242

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Söchting I (2014) Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pelton JN, Allahdadi F (eds) (2015) Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dyke Parunak H, Bisson R, Brueckner S, et al (2006) Representing Dispositions and Emotions in Simulated Combat. In: Thompson SG, Ghanea-Hercock R (eds) Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop, DAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–65

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 Journal of Visualization.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Does Your Beard Really Contain More Poo Than A Toilet? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1992) Department of Education: The Eisenhower Math and Science State Grant Program. 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

Gibb A (2012) Implementing U.S. security strategy in the 21st century: A three-part examination of the evolving role of the military in American foreign and security policy. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perez 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaguchi and Ng 2011; Perez 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi and Ng 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yoshimoto et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Visualization
Abbreviation	J. Vis. (Tokyo)
ISSN (print)	1343-8875
ISSN (online)	1875-8975
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics