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

Robock A (2002) Pinatubo eruption. The climatic aftermath. Science 295:1242–1244

A journal article with 2 authors

Mühlenbruch B, Jochimsen MA (2013) Research policy: Only wholesale reform will bring equality. Nature 495:40–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Michael Beman J, Arrigo KR, Matson PA (2005) Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean. Nature 434:211–214

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Corbit KC, Aanstad P, Singla V, et al (2005) Vertebrate Smoothened functions at the primary cilium. Nature 437:1018–1021

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reinke P (2012) Inorganic Nanostructures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Liu K-K, Atkinson L, Quiñones R, Talaue-McManus L (2010) Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis, 1st ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tong CK, Yong PK (2014) Personalism and Paternalism in Chinese Business. In: Tong C-K (ed) Chinese Business: Rethinking Guanxi and Trust in Chinese Business Networks. Springer, Singapore, pp 63–76

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

Luntz S (2015) New Breakthrough In Lithium-Oxygen Battery Technology. 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 (2015) Commercial Driver’s Licensing: Federal Oversight of State Programs Could Be Improved. 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

Roberts DM (2017) Resilience in Physically Maltreated Adolescents: Interpersonally Related Protective Factors and Gender Differences. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Those Chicken Georges And What They Mean. New York Times A21

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

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