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

Simmons R (2001) Sense and sensibility. Nature 411:243

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson LDS, Jameson SC (2009) Immunology. A chronic need for IL-21. Science 324:1525–1526

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang H, Ma Z, Liu J-F (2014) Equilibrium spin current in graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Sci Rep 4:6464

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gómez-Consarnau L, González JM, Coll-Lladó M, et al (2007) Light stimulates growth of proteorhodopsin-containing marine Flavobacteria. Nature 445:210–213

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H (2014) Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Treinen R (ed) (2009) Rewriting Techniques and Applications: 20th International Conference, RTA 2009 Brasília, Brazil, June 29 - July 1, 2009 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Druguet E, Rahimi A, Carreras J, et al (2015) The Geoheritage of Kerdous Inlier (Western Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Pages of Earth History in an Outstanding Landscape. In: Errami E, Brocx M, Semeniuk V (eds) From Geoheritage to Geoparks: Case Studies from Africa and Beyond. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 81–90

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

Luntz S (2015) Rosetta’s Comet Is Slowing Down. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-comet-slowing-down/. 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 (2012) Planning and Flexibility Are Key to Effectively Deploying Broadband Conduit through Federal Highway Projects. 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

Holmberg MB (2014) Alternative nitrogen for subsequent southern switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) production using cool-season legumes. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Dinardo K (2013) Laetitia Trouillet, Designer, on the Shops and Souks of Marrakesh. New York Times TR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Simmons 2001; Johnson and Jameson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Jameson 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gómez-Consarnau et al. 2007)

About the journal

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