How to format your references using the Annals of Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Data Science. 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

Raguso RA (2008) Plant science. The “invisible hand” of floral chemistry. Science 321:1163–1164

A journal article with 2 authors

Donnelly JP, Woodruff JD (2007) Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon. Nature 447:465–468

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanna JB, Schmitt D, Griffin TM (2008) The energetic cost of climbing in primates. Science 320:898

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fogg DK, Sibon C, Miled C, et al (2006) A clonogenic bone marrow progenitor specific for macrophages and dendritic cells. Science 311:83–87

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott CH, Smith LL (2010) Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Smart JC (2009) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Sobotka PA, Harrison DG, Fudim M (2015) The Endpoint on Measuring the Clinical Effects of Renal Denervation: What Are the Best Surrogates. In: Heuser RR, Schlaich M, Sievert H (eds) Renal Denervation: A New Approach to Treatment of Resistant Hypertension. Springer, London, pp 25–43

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 Annals of Data Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Water Vapor Detected in Exoplanet’s Atmosphere. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-vapor-detected-exoplanet’s-atmosphere/. 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 (1996) Space Shuttle: Need to Sustain Launch Risk Assessment Process Improvements. 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

Stephens BS (2017) Understanding CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Activation by CXC Chemokine Ligand 12. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Hofmann M (2017) Personality Is Everything. New York Times BR16

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	Annals of Data Science
Abbreviation	Ann. Data Sci.
ISSN (print)	2198-5804
ISSN (online)	2198-5812
Scope