How to format your references using the DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. 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

Bonvillian WB (2013) Technology. Advanced manufacturing policies and paradigms for innovation. Science 342:1173–1175

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen W, Li H (2014) How does carbon nanoring deform to spiral induced by carbon nanotube? Sci Rep 4:3865

A journal article with 3 authors

Niethammer P, Bastiaens P, Karsenti E (2004) Stathmin-tubulin interaction gradients in motile and mitotic cells. Science 303:1862–1866

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tzedakis PC, Roucoux KH, de Abreu L, Shackleton NJ (2004) The duration of forest stages in southern Europe and interglacial climate variability. Science 306:2231–2235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone C, Pesole G (2005) Handbook of Comparative Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Denman RB (ed) (2012) Modeling Fragile X Syndrome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Soga M, Kashimori Y (2008) Neural Mechanism for Extracting Object Features Critical for Visual Categorization Task. In: Ishikawa M, Doya K, Miyamoto H, Yamakawa T (eds) Neural Information Processing: 14th International Conference, ICONIP 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan, November 13-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 27–36

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 - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How Energy From Dry Ice Could Power Human Colonies On Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-energy-dry-ice-could-power-human-colonies-mars/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2009) Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles. 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

Garcia RD (2008) Designing an autonomous helicopter testbed: From conception through implementation. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Saslow L (2006) Chairman of Trustees Donates $6 Million. New York Times 14LI7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonvillian 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bonvillian 2013; Chen and Li 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Li 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tzedakis et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
ISSN (print)	0304-0941
ISSN (online)	2197-1722
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