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

Bourzac K (2015) Spiders: Web of intrigue. Nature 519:S4-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Laver G, Garman E (2001) Virology. The origin and control of pandemic influenza. Science 293:1776–1777

A journal article with 3 authors

Vafabakhsh R, Levitz J, Isacoff EY (2015) Conformational dynamics of a class C G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature 524:497–501

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Park D, Tosello-Trampont A-C, Elliott MR, et al (2007) BAI1 is an engulfment receptor for apoptotic cells upstream of the ELMO/Dock180/Rac module. Nature 450:430–434

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow J, Kohn E, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Eggenschwiler J (2009) CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Townsend TG (2015) Sustainable Practices for Landfill Design and Operation. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Napadow V, Dhond RP, Kettner NW (2008) Neuroimaging for the Evaluation of CAM Mechanisms. In: Audette JF, Bailey A (eds) Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 85–106

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 Annals of Data Science.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Patient’s Fart Causes Fire During Surgery. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/patients-fart-causes-fire-during-surgery/. 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 (2007) Drug Testing: Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program. 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

Bottorff EA (2011) The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Koblin J (2017) Another Williams Takes His Turn. New York Times B8

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