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 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

Hoag H (2003) In search of form and function. Nature 425(6960):880–881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vitetta ES, Ghetie VF (2006) Immunology. Considering therapeutic antibodies. Science 313(5785):308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peng L, Song ZG, Jiao SC (2014) Efficacy analysis of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on rare non-small cell lung cancer patients harboring complex EGFR mutations. Sci. Rep. 4:6104.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Junttila MR, Karnezis AN, Garcia D, Madriles F, Kortlever RM, Rostker F, Brown Swigart L, et al. (2010) Selective activation of p53-mediated tumour suppression in high-grade tumours. Nature 468(7323):567–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rhee MY (2013) Wireless Mobile Internet Security (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Cerone A, Persico D, Fernandes S, Garcia-Perez A, Katsaros P, Shaikh SA, Stamelos I eds. (2014) Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability: SEFM 2012 Satellite Events, InSuEdu, MoKMaSD, and OpenCert Thessaloniki, Greece, October 1–2, 2012 Revised Selected Papers (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Fiori PL, Rappelli P, Dessì D, Hirt R, Gould S, Tachezy J, Hrdy I (2016) Trichomonas. Walochnik J, Duchêne M, eds. Molecular Parasitology: Protozoan Parasites and their Molecules (Springer, Vienna), 115–155.

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

Carpineti A (2017) New Molecule Makes It Easier To Turn CO2 Into Fuel. 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 (1977) Efforts of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Department of Labor to Develop and Issue Health Standards (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

Nguyen LL (2017) Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice. 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

Williams J (2017) A Change Means a Challenge. New York Times (September 9).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003, Vitetta and Ghetie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vitetta and Ghetie 2006)
Three or more authors: (Junttila et al. 2010)

About the journal

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