How to format your references using the Big Data and Information Analytics citation style

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

Nielsen J (2015) BIOENGINEERING. Yeast cell factories on the horizon. Science 349: 1050–1051.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelham RJ, Chang F (2002) Actin dynamics in the contractile ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast. Nature 419: 82–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rupar PA, Staroverov VN, Baines KM (2008) A cryptand-encapsulated germanium(II) dication. Science 322: 1360–1363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McDonald D, Wu L, Bohks SM, et al. (2003) Recruitment of HIV and its receptors to dendritic cell-T cell junctions. Science 300: 1295–1297.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius V (2011) Introduction to Stochastic Analysis, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cortina MS, de la Cruz J (Eds.) (2015) Keratoprostheses and Artificial Corneas: Fundamentals and Surgical Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashbolt NJ (2010) Global Warming and Trans-Boundary Movement of Waterborne Microbial Pathogens, In: Sumi A, Fukushi K, Hiramatsu A (Eds.), Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change, Tokyo, Springer Japan, 71–82.

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 Information Analytics.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) IFLScience, ‘Scratching’ Sounds A Woman Heard Were Caused By Spider Living In Her Ear, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scratching-sounds-woman-heard-caused-spider-living-her-ear/.

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 (1998) Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Taxes, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dale B (2012) Changing how we change: A case study of Escondido Union School District.

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

Zimmerman E (2012) 99 Ways to be Naughty in Kazakhstan. New York Times MM22.

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 Information Analytics
ISSN (online)	2380-6974
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