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

Schmittner, A 2005 Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature, 434(7033): 628–633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, L and Morrison, S J 2013 Haematopoietic stem cells and early lymphoid progenitors occupy distinct bone marrow niches. Nature, 495(7440): 231–235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storey, M, Duncan, R A, and Swisher, C C, 3rd 2007 Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of the Northeast Atlantic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5824): 587–589.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, C-H, Chawla, A, Urbiztondo, N, Liao, D, Boisvert, W A, Evans, R M, and Curtiss, L K 2003 Transcriptional repression of atherogenic inflammation: modulation by PPARdelta. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5644): 453–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sun, B 2016 Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Finster, F, Müller, O, Nardmann, M, Tolksdorf, J, and Zeidler, E (eds.) 2012 Quantum Field Theory and Gravity: Conceptual and Mathematical Advances in the Search for a Unified Framework. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, Y A, Karadkar, U, and Furuta, R 2010 Component-Based Authoring of Complex, Petri net-based Digital Library Infrastructure. In: Lalmas, M, Jose, J, Rauber, A, Sebastiani, F, and Frommholz, I (eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 22–29.

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

Andrews, R 2016 Earthquakes Beneath Mount St. Helens Indicate Magma Chamber Is Recharging. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earthquakes-beneath-mount-st-helens-indicate-magma-chamber-recharging/ [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 2007 Homeland Security: DHS Enterprise Architecture Continues to Evolve but Improvements Needed (No. GAO-07-564). 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

Redcay, J D 2014 Kindergarten students’ reading performance and perceptions of Ludus Reading: A mixed-method study (Doctoral dissertation). Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

(nyt), S K 2003 World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Tracking Foreigners. New York Times, 18 February, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmittner, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ding and Morrison, 2013; Schmittner, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ding and Morrison, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al, 2003)

About the journal

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