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. Di Santo JP. Immunology. A guardian of T cell fate. Science. 2010;329:44–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jones W, Klin A. Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2-6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature. 2013;504:427–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Russell DG, Barry CE 3rd, Flynn JL. Tuberculosis: what we don’t know can, and does, hurt us. Science. 2010;328:852–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Takasuka TE, Book AJ, Lewin GR, Currie CR, Fox BG. Aerobic deconstruction of cellulosic biomass by an insect-associated Streptomyces. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zhu FXX, Hoehn R, Thakkar V, Yuh E. Hydroprocessing for Clean Energy. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Galicki K, Simanca SR, editors. Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wildenauer H, Mičušík B, Vincze M. Efficient Texture Representation Using Multi-scale Regions. In: Yagi Y, Kang SB, Kweon IS, Zha H, editors. Computer Vision – ACCV 2007: 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 65–74.

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. Andrew E. Number of Measles Cases Linked To Disneyland Continues To Grow [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/number-measles-cases-linked-disneyland-continues-grow/

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. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. IV, No. 5. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Feb. Report No.: 149426.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Baggio BG. Integrating social software into blended -learning courses: A Delphi study of instructional -design processes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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. Baker L. The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple. New York Times. 2007 Nov 9;F10.

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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