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

Marx V (2014) Proteomics: An atlas of expression. Nature 509:645–649

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P (2014) Can land use intensification in the Mallee, Australia increase the supply of soluble iron to the Southern Ocean? Sci Rep 4:6009

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson ME, Hsu M, Conboy IM (2008) Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature 454:528–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Grimm JW, Hope BT, Wise RA, Shaham Y (2001) Neuroadaptation. Incubation of cocaine craving after withdrawal. Nature 412:141–142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matlock MD, Morgan RA (2011) Ecological Engineering Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mateo CR, Gómez J, Villalaín J, González-Ros JM (2006) Protein-Lipid Interactions: New Approaches and Emerging Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hicks S (2012) The Funding of Higher Education in England. In: Bell G, Warwick J, Galbraith P (eds) Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 79–94

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) Prescription Painkillers, Not Marijuana, Are The Gateway Drug To Heroin Addiction Says US Attorney General. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/prescription-painkillers-not-marijuana-are-the-gateway-drug-to-heroin-addiction-says-us-attorney-general/. 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 (1988) Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act. 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

Plumer DR (2010) The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Gustines GG (2017) Comics Series Ending. New York Times C3

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