How to format your references using the Decision Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Decision Analysis. 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

Gatenby RA (2009) A change of strategy in the war on cancer. Nature 459(7246):508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Evans WE, Relling MV (2004) Moving towards individualized medicine with pharmacogenomics. Nature 429(6990):464–468.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibby TS, Nield J, Barber J (2001) Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria. Nature 412(6848):743–745.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gustafsson O, Kruså M, Zencak Z, Sheesley RJ, Granat L, Engström E, Praveen PS, Rao PSP, Leck C, Rodhe H (2009) Brown clouds over South Asia: biomass or fossil fuel combustion? Science 323(5913):495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooney KA, Chappell JR, Callan RJ, Connally BA (2012) Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK).

An edited book

Normey-Rico JE (2007) Control of Dead-time Processes Camacho EF, ed. (Springer, London).

A chapter in an edited book

Tzvetkov MV, Dalila N, Faltraco F (2016) Genetic Variability in Organic Cation Transporters: Pathophysiological Manifestations and Consequences for Drug Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy. Ciarimboli G, Gautron S, Schlatter E, eds. Organic Cation Transporters: Integration of Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology. (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 93–137.

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 Decision Analysis.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2017) Elephants Sleep The Least Of Any Mammal – Just Two Hours A Day. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elephants-sleep-the-least-of-any-mammal-just-two-hours-a-day/.

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 (1973) Problems in Regulating Selected Vaccines (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

Akers K (2017) The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions. Doctoral dissertation. (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL).

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

Hartman S (2016) A Subway Singer in the Spotlight. New York Times (September 18).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gatenby 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Evans and Relling 2004, Gatenby 2009).

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

Two authors: (Evans and Relling 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gustafsson et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Decision Analysis
Abbreviation	Decis. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1545-8490
ISSN (online)	1545-8504
Scope	General Decision Sciences