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

Knight J (2003) Tomorrow’s world. Nature 426:709–711

A journal article with 2 authors

Jetz W, Rahbek C (2002) Geographic range size and determinants of avian species richness. Science 297:1548–1551

A journal article with 3 authors

Corominas-Murtra B, Fortuny J, Solé RV (2014) Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication. Sci Rep 4:4587

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee S-JR, Escobedo-Lozoya Y, Szatmari EM, Yasuda R (2009) Activation of CaMKII in single dendritic spines during long-term potentiation. Nature 458:299–304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2007) Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-startup Safety Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hoi SCH, Luo J, Boll S, et al (eds) (2011) Social Media Modeling and Computing. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Segal-Klein H (2016) “Rendillelane”: Spatial Views from the Periphery of Kenya. In: Kithinji MM, Koster MM, Rotich JP (eds) Kenya After 50: Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 83–106

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 (2015) In The Push For Marketable Skills, Are We Forgetting The Beauty And Poetry Of STEM Disciplines? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/push-marketable-skills-are-we-forgetting-beauty-and-poetry-stem-disciplines/. 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 (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. 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

Ndiaye O (2010) The Predictability of the Sahelian Climate: Seasonal Sahel Rainfall and Onset over Senegal. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Kanter J, Kitsantonis N (2017) Tough Act to Follow. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jetz and Rahbek 2002; Knight 2003).

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

Two authors: (Jetz and Rahbek 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2009)

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