How to format your references using the Data Science Journal citation style

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

Macilwain, C 2013 Scottish science is ready to go it alone. Nature, 493(7434): 579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grimmer, M R and Costello, J F 2016 Cancer: Oncogene brought into the loop. Nature, 529(7584): 34–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maruyama, M, Lam, K P, and Rajewsky, K 2000 Memory B-cell persistence is independent of persisting immunizing antigen. Nature, 407(6804): 636–642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheng, J, Türkel, N, Hemati, N, Fuller, M T, Hunt, A J, and Yamashita, Y M 2008 Centrosome misorientation reduces stem cell division during ageing. Nature, 456(7222): 599–604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dixon, B and Uddameri, V 2015 GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Joseph, J V and Patel, H R H (eds.) 2011 Retroperitoneal Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery: The Extraperitoneal Approach. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Khoa, N L D and Chawla, S 2012 Large Scale Spectral Clustering Using Resistance Distance and Spielman-Teng Solvers. In: Ganascia, J-G, Lenca, P, and Petit, J-M (eds.), Discovery Science: 15th International Conference, DS 2012, Lyon, France, October 29-31, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 7–21.

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 Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T 2016 Geminid Meteor Shower Will Peak Tonight, But The Supermoon Might Outshine It. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/geminid-meteor-shower-will-peak-tonight-but-the-supermoon-might-outshine-it/ [Last accessed 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 2008 Runway Safety: Progress on Reducing Runway Incursions Impeded by Leadership, Technology, and Other Challenges (No. GAO-08-481T). 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

Kellogg, A 2010 Hospital Lean and Six Sigma: Is there a financial benefit? (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Poniewozik, J 2017 Fittingly, a Frank Finale for ‘Girls.’ New York Times, 17 April, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grimmer and Costello, 2016; Macilwain, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Grimmer and Costello, 2016)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al, 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Data Science Journal
Abbreviation	Data Sci. J.
ISSN (online)	1683-1470
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Computer Science Applications