How to format your references using the Visualization, Image Processing and Computation in Biomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Visualization, Image Processing and Computation in Biomedicine (VIPCB). 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

Wilczek, F., In Search of Symmetry Lost, Nature, vol. 433, no. 7023, pp. 239–47, January 20, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, M. J. T. and Kable, S. H., Chemistry. Roaming Reaction Pathways along Excited States, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 335, no. 6072, pp. 1054–55, March 2, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sousa-Nunes, R., Yee, L. L. and Gould, A. P., Fat Cells Reactivate Quiescent Neuroblasts via TOR and Glial Insulin Relays in Drosophila, Nature, vol. 471, no. 7339, pp. 508–12, March 24, 2011.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, B., Xie, W., Li, H., Wang, Y., Cai, D., Wang, D., Wang, L., Liu, Y., Li, Q. and Wang, T., Surrounding Sensitive Electronic Properties of Bi₂Te₃ Nanoplates-Potential Sensing Applications of Topological Insulators, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 4639, April 10, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigg, N. S., Infrastructure Finance, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Foster, C., Altruism, Welfare and the Law, Cham: Springer International Publishing, IX, 82 p, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Teng, Z. and Zhang, B., An Optimization Method of Fusing Multiple Decisions in Object Detection, in Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2014 International Workshops: DANTH, BDM, MobiSocial, BigEC, CloudSD, MSMV-MBI, SDA, DMDA-Health, ALSIP, SocNet, DMBIH, BigPMA,Tainan, Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, W.-C. Peng H. Wang J. Bailey V. S. Tseng T. B. Ho Z.-H. Zhou and A. L. P. Chen, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 29–35, 2014.

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, Image Processing and Computation in Biomedicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E., Student Develops Inexpensive Solar Lens To Purify Polluted Water, IFLScience, August 18, 2014.

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, FTS 2000: Status and Mandatory Use, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-IMTEC-93-5, Apr. 22, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cherukuri, H., 1, 3-Dipolar Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide with a Fluoro-Olefin, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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

Williams, J., The Head Honcho’s Head Honcho, New York Times, March 24, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wilczek, 2005; Jordan et al., 2012).

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

Two authors: (Jordan et al., 2012)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Visualization, Image Processing and Computation in Biomedicine
ISSN (online)	2162-3511
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