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. Lazar MA. How obesity causes diabetes: not a tall tale. Science. 2005;307:373–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nienborg H, Cumming BG. Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron’s causal effect. Nature. 2009;459:89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nguyen TD, Ehrenfreund E, Vardeny ZV. Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science. 2012;337:204–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li S, Hill CP, Sundquist WI, Finch JT. Image reconstructions of helical assemblies of the HIV-1 CA protein. Nature. 2000;407:409–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bisswanger H. Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Wolff BG, Fleshman JW, Beck DE, Pemberton JH, Wexner SD, Church JM, et al., editors. The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Blasco-Fontecilla H. The Addiction to Suicidal Behavior. In: Courtet P, editor. Understanding Suicide: From Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 53–61.

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. Ectopic Fetus Removed From Woman After 36 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ectopic-fetus-removed-woman-after-36-years/

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. CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Nov. Report No.: NSIAD-97-40R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gordon RL. Neural and behavioral correlates of song prosody [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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. Dinardo K. Laetitia Trouillet, Designer, on the Shops and Souks of Marrakesh. New York Times. 2013 Dec 15;TR3.

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

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