How to format your references using the Advances in Data Analysis and Classification citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. 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

Moran MA (2015) The global ocean microbiome. Science 350:aac8455

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle-Mulcahy L, Lamond AI (2007) Toward a high-resolution view of nuclear dynamics. Science 318:1402–1407

A journal article with 3 authors

Dornelas M, Connolly SR, Hughes TP (2006) Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 440:80–82

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Calais E, Mattioli G, DeMets C, et al (2005) Seismology: tectonic strain in plate interiors? Nature 438:E9-10; discussion E10

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lau VKN, Ricky Kwok Y-K (2006) Channel-Adaptive Technologies and Cross-Layer Designs for Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bellocchio F (2013) 3D Surface Reconstruction: Multi-Scale Hierarchical Approaches. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bakas S, Hoppe A, Chatzimichail K, et al (2012) Focal Liver Lesion Tracking in CEUS for Characterisation Based on Dynamic Behaviour. In: Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B, et al. (eds) Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–41

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 Advances in Data Analysis and Classification.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) The Weather Channel Shuts Down Breitbart For Misleading Climate Change Article. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-weather-channel-shuts-down-breitbart-for-misleading-climate-change-article/. 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 (2001) Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges. 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

Knehans A (2013) As you like it: The road to design. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) All These Sleepless Nights. New York Times C7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moran 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Trinkle-Mulcahy and Lamond 2007; Moran 2015).

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

Two authors: (Trinkle-Mulcahy and Lamond 2007)
Three or more authors: (Calais et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Abbreviation	Adv. Data Anal. Classif.
ISSN (print)	1862-5347
ISSN (online)	1862-5355
Scope	Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics