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

Young ED (2007) Geochemistry. Strange water in the solar system. Science 317:211–212

A journal article with 2 authors

Kalia J, Swartz KJ (2013) Exploring structure-function relationships between TRP and Kv channels. Sci Rep 3:1523

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang KH, Penmatsa A, Gouaux E (2015) Neurotransmitter and psychostimulant recognition by the dopamine transporter. Nature 521:322–327

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu Z-Y, Li C, Liang H-W, et al (2014) Carbon nanofiber aerogels for emergent cleanup of oil spillage and chemical leakage under harsh conditions. Sci Rep 4:4079

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korst J, Pronk V (2006) Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Nielsen B, Weise C (eds) (2012) Testing Software and Systems: 24th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2012, Aalborg, Denmark, November 19-21, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Idema R, Lahaye DJP (2014) Convergence Theory. In: Lahaye DJP (ed) Computational Methods in Power System Analysis. Atlantis Press, Paris, pp 29–44

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 (2015) 40,000-Year-Old Human Had Neanderthal Great-Great-Grandparent. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/40000-year-old-human-had-neanderthal-great-great-grandparent/. 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 (1999) Managed Care: State Approaches on Selected Patient Protections. 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

Robinson AC (2017) A Geophysical and Geological Characterization of the Bonanza 3D Survey, Claiborne Group, Saint Landry and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

St. John Kelly E (1994) PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1317

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Young 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Young 2007; Kalia and Swartz 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kalia and Swartz 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

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

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