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

Ohlsson R (2007) Genetics. Widespread monoallelic expression. Science 318:1077–1078

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang TT, Palese P (2011) Biochemistry. Catching a moving target. Science 333:834–835

A journal article with 3 authors

Khush RS, Leulier F, Lemaitre B (2002) Immunology. Pathogen surveillance--the flies have it. Science 296:273–275

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Price TAR, Hodgson DJ, Lewis Z, et al (2008) Selfish genetic elements promote polyandry in a fly. Science 322:1241–1243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilmore R, Lefranc M (2011) The Topology of Chaos. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Fomin FV, Kaski P (eds) (2012) Algorithm Theory – SWAT 2012: 13th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops, Helsinki, Finland, July 4-6, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Drugowitsch J, Barry AM (2008) A Principled Foundation for LCS. In: Bacardit J, Bernadó-Mansilla E, Butz MV, et al. (eds) Learning Classifier Systems: 10th International Workshop, IWLCS 2006, Seattle, MA, USA, July 8, 2006 and 11th International Workshop, IWLCS 2007, London, UK, July 8, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–95

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

Evans K (2017) Distinct Shapes Of Ancient Skulls Indicates Multiple Migrations Into Early Americas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/distinct-shapes-of-ancient-skulls-indicates-multiple-migrations-into-early-americas/. 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 (2011) Space Acquisitions: Development and Oversight Challenges in Delivering Improved Space Situational Awareness Capabilities. 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

Narayanan BC (2008) Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Vlasic B (2016) Auto Sales Explode, but Detroit Brands No Longer Dominate. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohlsson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ohlsson 2007; Wang and Palese 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Palese 2011)
Three or more authors: (Price et al. 2008)

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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