How to format your references using the Machine Vision and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Machine Vision and Applications. 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

Hoag, H.: Transgenic salmon still out in the cold in United States. Nature. 421, 304 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Porteus, M.H., Baltimore, D.: Chimeric nucleases stimulate gene targeting in human cells. Science. 300, 763 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, A.R., Libby, S.J., Fang, F.C.: A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity. Science. 319, 1672–1676 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Azzouz, M., Ralph, G.S., Storkebaum, E., Walmsley, L.E., Mitrophanous, K.A., Kingsman, S.M., Carmeliet, P., Mazarakis, N.D.: VEGF delivery with retrogradely transported lentivector prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model. Nature. 429, 413–417 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Amico, G., Di Biase, G., Janssen, J., Manca, R.: Semi-Markov Migration Models for Credit Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Tang, H.: Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen, H.D., Poo, D.C.C.: Automated Mobile Health: Designing a Social Reasoning Platform for Remote Health Management. In: Meiselwitz, G. (ed.) Social Computing and Social Media: 8th International Conference, SCSM 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–22, 2016. Proceedings. pp. 34–46. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Machine Vision and Applications.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Does My Voice Really Sound Like That?

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: Ocean Research Fleet: NOAA Needs to Plan for Long-Term Fleet Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ciolek, R.: A Mixed Method Study on the Missouri Beginning Teachers Assistance Program and Teacher Retention in Saint Louis School Districts, (2017)

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

Kelly, K.: Keep ’Em Coming, (2007)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Machine Vision and Applications
Abbreviation	Mach. Vis. Appl.
ISSN (print)	0932-8092
ISSN (online)	1432-1769
Scope	Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Hardware and Architecture Software