How to format your references using the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 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

Hoff K (2010) Behavior. Fairness in modern society. Science 327:1467–1468

A journal article with 2 authors

Long P, Corfas G (2014) Neuroscience. To learn is to myelinate. Science 346:298–299

A journal article with 3 authors

Khan P, Jain H, Adarsh KV (2014) Role of Ge:As ratio in controlling the light-induced response of a-Ge(x)As(35-x)Se65 thin films. Sci Rep 4:4029

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rokas A, Williams BL, King N, Carroll SB (2003) Genome-scale approaches to resolving incongruence in molecular phylogenies. Nature 425:798–804

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist JG (2005) Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Muijs D (2011) Collaboration and Networking in Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Guo S (2013) The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Procedures and Liu Hui’s Mathematical Theory. In: Knobloch E, Komatsu H, Liu D (eds) Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan: A Commemoration on His Tercentenary. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 63–88

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 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Triple Rescue: Baby Ostriches Comfort Baby Elephant As He’s Airlifted. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/triple-rescue-baby-ostriches-comfort-baby-elephant-hes-airlifted-currently-being/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1995) Strategic Airlift: Improvements in C-5 Mission Capability Can Help Meet Airlift Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Raynor SL (2017) A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Kelly J (2017) That Other Clinton. New York Times BR7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hoff 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hoff 2010; Long and Corfas 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Long and Corfas 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rokas et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Abbreviation	Data Min. Knowl. Discov.
ISSN (print)	1384-5810
ISSN (online)	1573-756X
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Information Systems