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

Solow, A R 2015 CLIMATE CHANGE. Extreme weather, made by us? Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6255): 1444–1445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiang, Y and Kobilka, B K 2003 Myocyte adrenoceptor signaling pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625): 1530–1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moseley, R L, Pulvermüller, F, and Shtyrov, Y 2013 Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms. Scientific reports, 3: 1928.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jochim, S, Bartenstein, M, Altmeyer, A, Hendl, G, Riedl, S, Chin, C, Hecker Denschlag, J, and Grimm, R 2003 Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653): 2101–2103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiGrado, B D and Thorp, G A 2007 The Aboveground Steel Storage Tank Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Antona, M and Stephanidis, C (eds.) 2015 Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to the Human Environment and Culture: 9th International Conference, UAHCI 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Janowitz, M F 2013 Sara Roelofse, Matron of New Amsterdam. In: Janowitz, M F and Dallal, D (eds.), Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 65–88.

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 Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E 2015 How Languages Evolved. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-indo-european-languages-may-have-evolved/ [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 1999 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning (No. AIMD-99-178). 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

Sindel, K D 2010 Can experiential education strategies improve elementary science teachers’ perceptions of and practices in science teaching? (Doctoral dissertation). St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

George, N 2013 Red and Black. New York Times, 22 September, BR12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solow, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Solow, 2015; Xiang and Kobilka, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Xiang and Kobilka, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jochim 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