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

Smith R (2000) Making hard light sharper. Nature 404(6776):345, 347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forneris F, Mattevi A (2008) Enzymes without borders: mobilizing substrates, delivering products. Science 321(5886):213–216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barthelemy P, Bertolotti J, Wiersma DS (2008) A Lévy flight for light. Nature 453(7194):495–498.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wollert T, Wunder C, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Hurley JH (2009) Membrane scission by the ESCRT-III complex. Nature 458(7235):172–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento L, Smoleny S (2015) A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Rubin P, Constine LS, Marks LB eds. (2014) ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment: Volume 1: General Concepts and Specific Precepts (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Lepik Ü, Hein H (2014) Integral Equations. Hein H, ed. Haar Wavelets: With Applications. Mathematical Engineering. (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 59–82.

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

Davis J (2016) Extent Of Arctic AND Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Lowest Ever Recorded. 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 (1991) Telecommunications: GSA’s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000 (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

Packer CD (2013) School Referenda and Ohio Department of Education Typologies: An Investigation of the Outcomes of First Attempt School Operating Levies from 2002–2010. Doctoral dissertation. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH).

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

St. John Kelly E (1998) Circular Makes the Rounds and Residents Complain. New York Times (May 10).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Forneris and Mattevi 2008, Smith 2000).

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

Two authors: (Forneris and Mattevi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wollert 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

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