How to format your references using the Big Data Analytics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Big Data Analytics. 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

1. Cripton PA. Perspective: Protecting the neck. Nature. 2013;503:S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Coffin JM, Stoye JP. Virology. A new virus for old diseases? Science. 2009;326:530–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McGraw CM, Samaco RC, Zoghbi HY. Adult neural function requires MeCP2. Science. 2011;333:186.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fillmore CM, Xu C, Desai PT, Berry JM, Rowbotham SP, Lin Y-J, et al. Author Correction: EZH2 inhibition sensitizes BRG1 and EGFR mutant lung tumours to TopoII inhibitors. Nature. 2018;563:E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wiedenmannott W. Industrielle Wasseraufbereitung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Hescheler J, Hofer E, editors. Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yang Z, Chen J. Housing Affordability in Urban China: Regional Study. In: Chen J, editor. Housing Affordability and Housing Policy in Urban China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 73–86.

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 Big Data Analytics.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Gene Therapy Boosts Deaf Guinea Pigs’ Cochlear Implants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-boosts-deaf-guinea-pigs’-cochlear-implants/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Head Start: Information on Federal Funds Unspent by Program Grantees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Dec. Report No.: HEHS-96-64.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Weber TR. Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2010.

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

1. Daoud K. The French Disconnection. New York Times. 2017 Apr 21;A27.

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	Big Data Analytics
Abbreviation	Big Data Anal.
ISSN (online)	2058-6345
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