How to format your references using the Data Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Data Science and Engineering. 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

Yablonovitch E (2000) APPLIED PHYSICS: How to Be Truly Photonic. Science 289:557–559

A journal article with 2 authors

Grabbe C, Dikic I (2008) Cell biology. Going global on ubiquitin. Science 322:872–873

A journal article with 3 authors

Nugent FS, Penick EC, Kauer JA (2007) Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses. Nature 446:1086–1090

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Turelli P, Mangeat B, Jost S, et al (2004) Inhibition of hepatitis B virus replication by APOBEC3G. Science 303:1829

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guillaume P (2006) Music and Acoustics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Haddad S, Pomello L (2012) Application and Theory of Petri Nets: 33rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2012, Hamburg, Germany, June 25-29, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Greene RE, Kim K-T, Krantz SG (2011) Applications of Bergman Geometry. In: Kim K-T, Krantz SG (eds) The Geometry of Complex Domains. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp 99–133

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Is How Much Sea Ice Each Of Us Melts Every Year. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-is-how-much-sea-ice-each-of-us-melts-every-year/. 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 (1996) Air Traffic Control: Good Progress on Interim Replacement for Outage-Plagued System, but Risks Can Be Further Reduced. 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

Heredia R (2017) Leadership Development in a Multigenerational Workplace: An Exploratory Study. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) The Son of Joseph. New York Times C12

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	Data Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Data Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2364-1185
ISSN (online)	2364-1541
Scope