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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Estrada-Oyuela, R 2009 Copenhagen needs a strong lead negotiator. Nature, 461(7267): 1056–1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmer, P and Wrachtrup, J 2009 Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5926): 473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp, B, Pál, C, and Hurst, L D 2003 Dosage sensitivity and the evolution of gene families in yeast. Nature, 424(6945): 194–197.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chao, Y, Ma, L, Yang, Y, Ju, F, Zhang, X-X, Wu, W-M, and Zhang, T 2013 Metagenomic analysis reveals significant changes of microbial compositions and protective functions during drinking water treatment. Scientific reports, 3: 3550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smeets, R, der Sluis, L van, Kapetanović, M, Peelo, D F, and Janssen, A 2014 Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nyklíček, I, Vingerhoets, A, and Zeelenberg, M (eds.) 2011 Emotion Regulation and Well-Being. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miller, A 2012 Californium-252 as a Neutron Source for BNCT. In: Sauerwein, W, Wittig, A, Moss, R, and Nakagawa, Y (eds.), Neutron Capture Therapy: Principles and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 69–74.

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 2014 Lead Pollution Got To The South Pole Before We Did. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/lead-pollution-got-south-pole-we-did/ [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 2006 Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft (No. GAO-06-571). 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

Aslanyan, A L 2014 Psycho-educational group for family members of adults with a mental health diagnosis: A grant proposal (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

Vecsey, G 2011 An Underachieving Symbol of the Mets’ Lost Decade. New York Times, 28 July, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Estrada-Oyuela, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Estrada-Oyuela, 2009; Hemmer and Wrachtrup, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hemmer and Wrachtrup, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al, 2013)

About the journal

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