How to format your references using the Decision Analytics citation style

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

Eichenbaum H. Neuroscience. Dedicated to memory? Science. 2010 Dec 3;330(6009):1331–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim K-H, Park Q-H. Perfect anti-reflection from first principles. Sci. Rep. 2013 Jan 14;3:1062.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkel T, Deng C-X, Mostoslavsky R. Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins. Nature. 2009 Jul 30;460(7255):587–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Park H-S, Ko S-J, Park J-S, Kim JY, Song H-K. Redox-active charge carriers of conducting polymers as a tuner of conductivity and its potential window. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:2454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown MA, Kaplan L. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Prodi G, editor. Eigenvalues of Non-Linear Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Dasgupta A, Gencel C, Symons C. A Process to Improve the Accuracy of MkII FP to COSMIC Size Conversions: Insights into the COSMIC Method Design Assumptions. In: Kobyliński A, Czarnacka-Chrobot B, Świerczek J, editors. Software Measurement: 25th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 10th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2015, Kraków, Poland, October 5-7, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 46–61.

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 Analytics.

Blog post

Andrew D. Monkeys In South America Are Almost All Colour Blind And No One Knows Why [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkeys-in-south-america-are-almost-all-colour-blind-and-no-one-knows-why/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Must Act Quickly to Prevent Systems Failures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Feb. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-63.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ilag GM. An examination of the entity participants’ collaborative partnerships within the United Nations Global Compact [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

Steven Lee Myers; Erin, Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting for this article. Suicide Bomber Kills 9 at Moscow Subway Station. New York Times. 2004 Sep 1;A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eichenbaum 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Eichenbaum 2010; Kim and Park 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Park 2013)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Decision Analytics
Abbreviation	Decis. Anal.
ISSN (online)	2193-8636
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