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. Nafie LA. Physical chemistry: handedness detected by microwaves. Nature. 2013;497:446–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Menon S, Manning BD. Cell signalling: nutrient sensing lost in cancer. Nature. 2013;498:444–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. MacMicking JD, Taylor GA, McKinney JD. Immune control of tuberculosis by IFN-gamma-inducible LRG-47. Science. 2003;302:654–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Niswender KD, Morton GJ, Stearns WH, Rhodes CJ, Myers MG Jr, Schwartz MW. Intracellular signalling. Key enzyme in leptin-induced anorexia. Nature. 2001;413:794–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Glisic S. Advanced Wireless Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Matucci-Cerinic M, Furst D, Fiorentino D, editors. Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ram AR, Chaudhuri S. Video Content Re-creation. In: Chaudhuri S, editor. Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 65–88.

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. Hale T. One In Four People Have Sexual Fantasies About AI Voice Assistants Like Siri [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/one-in-four-people-have-sexual-fantasies-about-ai-voice-assistants-like-siri/

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. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Mar. Report No.: GAO-12-207SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Boyle LL. Relationship between managerial responsiveness, managerial approachability, and prosocial voice among acute-care registered nurses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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. Hollander S. Game and the Season End In Frustration for the Power. New York Times. 2002 Aug 11;85.

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
Scope