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

Moore DD (2011) Physiology. Crise de foie, redux? Science 331:1275–1276

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung H, Karato S (2001) Water-induced fabric transitions in olivine. Science 293:1460–1463

A journal article with 3 authors

Boos D, Yekezare M, Diffley JFX (2013) Identification of a heteromeric complex that promotes DNA replication origin firing in human cells. Science 340:981–984

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gilijamse JJ, Hoekstra S, van de Meerakker SYT, et al (2006) Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity. Science 313:1617–1620

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith MC, Sherman DM (2009) Goat Medicine. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Gasiński L (2016) Exercises in Analysis: Part 2: Nonlinear Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Bataineh O, Reynolds M, French T (2014) Finding Best and Worst Case Execution Times of Systems Using Difference-Bound Matrices. In: Legay A, Bozga M (eds) Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems: 12th International Conference, FORMATS 2014, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 38–52

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

Andrew E (2015) Concrete Jungle: Cities Adapt to Growing Ranks of Coyotes, Cougars and Other Urban Wildlife. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/concrete-jungle-cities-adapt-growing-ranks-coyotes-cougars-and-other-urban-wildlife/. 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 (1994) Airport Improvement Program: Reliever Airport Set-Aside Funds Could Be Redirected. 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

Narayanan BC (2008) Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Marchese J (2016) ‘I Just Love What I’m Doing.’ New York Times AR20

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

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