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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Berkley, S. Share the Risks of Ebola Vaccine Development. Nature 2015, 519, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas, D.N.; Dieckmann, G.S. Antarctic Sea Ice--a Habitat for Extremophiles. Science 2002, 295, 641–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hatano, T.; Stopa, M.; Tarucha, S. Single-Electron Delocalization in Hybrid Vertical-Lateral Double Quantum Dots. Science 2005, 309, 268–271.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kilner, P.J.; Yang, G.Z.; Wilkes, A.J.; Mohiaddin, R.H.; Firmin, D.N.; Yacoub, M.H. Asymmetric Redirection of Flow through the Heart. Nature 2000, 404, 759–761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolo, D. Interactions on Digital Tablets in the Context of 3D Geometry Learning; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119330288.

An edited book

Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities; Geertman, S., Ferreira, J., Jr., Goodspeed, R., Stillwell, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319183671.

A chapter in an edited book

de Luca, A.; D’Alessandro, F. Automi Finiti. In Teoria degli Automi Finiti; D’Alessandro, F., Ed.; UNITEXT; Springer: Milano, 2013; pp. 117–178 ISBN 9788847054738.

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

Taub, B. This Is The First Ever Footage Of Cellular Activity In A Regenerating Leg Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-footage-cellular-activity-regenerating-leg/ (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 Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kennedy, K.T. A Heuristic Study of Religious Spirituality and Meaningful Work. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2016.

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

Valerian, S. For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home. New York Times 2013, B17.

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