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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Eiler JM (2007) Geochemistry. The oldest fossil or just another rock? Science 317:1046–1047
A journal article with 2 authors
Pelham RJ, Chang F (2002) Actin dynamics in the contractile ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast. Nature 419:82–86
A journal article with 3 authors
Aoi S, Kunugi T, Fujiwara H (2008) Trampoline effect in extreme ground motion. Science 322:727–730
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Deguchi S, Mukai S-A, Sakaguchi H, Nonomura Y (2013) Non-engineered nanoparticles of C₆₀. Sci Rep 3:2094

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Blanchet G, Dupouy B (2012) Computer Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA
An edited book
Klasing R (ed) (2012) Experimental Algorithms: 11th International Symposium, SEA 2012, Bordeaux, France, June 7-9, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Otto S, Kwon T-G, Assaf AT (2015) Definition, Clinical Features and Staging of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw. In: Otto S (ed) Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws: Bisphosphonates, Denosumab, and New Agents. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–54

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
Fang J (2014) Is Yellowstone About To Erupt? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-about-erupt/. 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 (2014) Technology Transfer: Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve Initiatives. 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
Puhr RA (2013) Evolution of the Sparse inflorescence1 lineage in grasses. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
Wagner J (2016) Mets Enter Off-Season With One Big Question and Many Decisions. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eiler 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pelham and Chang 2002; Eiler 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Pelham and Chang 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Deguchi et al. 2013)

About the journal

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

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