How to format your references using the Big Data and Cognitive Computing citation style

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

Matsui, W. Perspective: A Model Disease. Nature 2011, 480, S58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Redman, C.W.; Sargent, I.L. Latest Advances in Understanding Preeclampsia. Science 2005, 308, 1592–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonzalez, S.; Kitchener, A.C.; Lister, A.M. Survival of the Irish Elk into the Holocene. Nature 2000, 405, 753–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rozan, T.F.; Lassman, M.E.; Ridge, D.P.; Luther, G.W., 3rd Evidence for Iron, Copper and Zinc Complexation as Multinuclear Sulphide Clusters in Oxic Rivers. Nature 2000, 406, 879–882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mariño, P.P. Optimization of Computer Networks - Modeling and Algorithms; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119114840.

An edited book

Science Education Research and Practices in Taiwan: Challenges and Opportunities; Chiu, M.-H., Ed.; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer: Singapore, 2016; ISBN 9789812874719.

A chapter in an edited book

Dozmorov, M.; Hurst, R.E. From Microarray to Biology. In Systems Biology for Signaling Networks; Choi, S., Ed.; Systems Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2010; pp. 85–107 ISBN 9781441957962.

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 and Cognitive Computing.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. The Science Of Laughter – And Why It Also Has A Dark Side Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-science-of-laughter-and-why-it-also-has-a-dark-side/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Activities at the Regional Finance and Data Processing Center in Paris, France; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hill, J.A. Classical Three-Body Systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theorem. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Vecsey, G. From the Men, A Few Highlights After the Deluge. New York Times 2011, SP9.

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 and Cognitive Computing
Abbreviation	Big Data Cogn. Comput.
ISSN (online)	2504-2289
Scope