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

Couzin I (2007) Collective minds. Nature 445(7129):715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nair S, Schilling TF (2008) Chemokine signaling controls endodermal migration during zebrafish gastrulation. Science 322(5898):89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rowe T, McBride EF, Sereno PC (2001) Dinosaur with a heart of stone. Science 291(5505):783.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mukamel R, Gelbard H, Arieli A, Hasson U, Fried I, Malach R (2005) Coupling between neuronal firing, field potentials, and FMRI in human auditory cortex. Science 309(5736):951–954.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Funk W, Dammann V, Donnevert G, Ianelli S, Ianelli E, Gray A (2006) Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany).

An edited book

Pol J van de, Weber M eds. (2010) Model Checking Software: 17th International SPIN Workshop, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Hossain MF, Alsharif MR, Yamashita K (2010) LMMSE-Based Image Denoising in Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform Domain. Elmoataz A, Lezoray O, Nouboud F, Mammass D, Meunier J, eds. Image and Signal Processing: 4th International Conference, ICISP 2010, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, June 30-July 2, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 36–43.

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

Luntz S (2014) Is There A Planet X? 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 (2013) Video Marketplace: Competition Is Evolving, and Government Reporting Should Be Reevaluated (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

Nambiar VR (2012) A Grounded Theory Study on Business Excellence Models in the United Arab Emirates. Doctoral dissertation. (University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ).

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

Chira S (2017) Cosby Is the Man on Trial. But So Are Power Dynamics. New York Times (June 8).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Couzin 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Couzin 2007, Nair and Schilling 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nair and Schilling 2008)
Three or more authors: (Mukamel et al. 2005)

About the journal

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