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

McCauley DJ (2006) Selling out on nature. Nature 443:27–28

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun Y, Cao C (2014) Research Funding. Demystifying central government R&D spending in China. Science 345:1006–1008

A journal article with 3 authors

Foukal P, North G, Wigley T (2004) Climate. A stellar view on solar variations and climate. Science 306:68–69

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Manfredo Vieira S, Hiltensperger M, Kumar V, et al (2018) Translocation of a gut pathobiont drives autoimmunity in mice and humans. Science 359:1156–1161

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langlois P (2013) Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chakravarthi VS, Shirur YJM, Prasad R (eds) (2013) Proceedings of International Conference on VLSI, Communication, Advanced Devices, Signals & Systems and Networking (VCASAN-2013). Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Bai Z, Silverstein JW (2010) Limits of Extreme Eigenvalues. In: Silverstein JW (ed) Spectral Analysis of Large Dimensional Random Matrices. Springer, New York, NY, pp 91–118

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

Andrew E (2014) Evidence of Recent Water on Mars. 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 (1989) ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future. 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

Arendse EM (2014) A textual Caribbean: Voices of the multitude in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 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

Kelly M (1992) Gore Tells the Wary: Clinton Isn’t a Worry. New York Times A10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCauley 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McCauley 2006; Sun and Cao 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sun and Cao 2014)
Three or more authors: (Manfredo Vieira et al. 2018)

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