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

Broer DJ (2014) Applied physics: A new view on displays. Nature 511(7508):159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gani R, Leach S (2001) Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations. Nature 414(6865):748–751.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nelson FE, Anisimov OA, Shiklomanov NI (2001) Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost. Nature 410(6831):889–890.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li Y, Zhong Y, Xu L, Zhang J, Xu X, Sun H, Miao X (2013) Ultrafast synaptic events in a chalcogenide memristor. Sci. Rep. 3:1619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi ZJ (2014) Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Musiani F, Cogburn DL, DeNardis L, Levinson NS eds. (2016) The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY).

A chapter in an edited book

Gharibreza M, Ashraf MA (2014) Soil Erosion Rate and Nutrient Loss at the Bera Lake Catchment. Ashraf MA, ed. Applied Limnology: Comprehensive View from Watershed to Lake. (Springer Japan, Tokyo), 107–134.

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

Andrew E (2015) World’s First Solar Cycle Path Is Performing Better Than Anticipated. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 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 (1993) Technology Transfer: Implementation of CRADAs at NIST, Army, and DOE (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

Peng E (2017) Teaching and Coaching Brazilian Jiujitsu: An Instructional Manual. Doctoral dissertation. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA).

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

Shear MD (2017) Trump Tells N.R.A.: ‘I Am Going to Come Through for You.’ New York Times (April 28).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Broer 2014, Gani and Leach 2001).

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

Two authors: (Gani and Leach 2001)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

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