How to format your references using the Decision Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Decision Sciences. 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

Devlin, K. (2002). Portraits of science. Kurt Gödel--separating truth from proof in mathematics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1899–1900.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bina, C. R., & Navrotsky, A. (2000). Possible presence of high-pressure ice in cold subducting slabs. Nature, 408(6814), 844–847.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grevemeyer, I., Herber, R., & Essen, H. H. (2000). Microseismological evidence for a changing wave climate in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 408(6810), 349–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baugh, J., Kleinhammes, A., Han, D., Wang, Q., & Wu, Y. (2001). Confinement effect on dipole-dipole interactions in nanofluids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1505–1507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn, G. (2005). HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vellema, S. (Ed.). (2011). Transformation and sustainability in agriculture: Connecting practice with social theory. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Hessayon, A. (2016). Lead’s Life and Times (Part Three): The Philadelphian Society. In A. Hessayon (Ed.), Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 71–90.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Refuelling Japanese Volcano Could Destroy “Naples Of The East” By 2044,. IFLScience accessed October 30, 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. (2001). Space Shuttle Safety: Update on NASA’s Progress in Revitalizing the Shuttle Workforce and Making Safety Upgrades. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ritter, D. (2008). The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017). The Rally Before the Rally. New York Times. October 3, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Devlin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bina & Navrotsky, 2000; Devlin, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bina & Navrotsky, 2000)
Three authors: (Grevemeyer, Herber, & Essen, 2000)
Four or more authors: (Baugh, Kleinhammes, Han, Wang, & Wu, 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Decision Sciences
ISSN (print)	0011-7315
ISSN (online)	1540-5915
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Information Systems and Management