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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Yong, E. (2014). First response: race against time. Nature, 510(7506), S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pacheco-Vázquez, F., & Dorbolo, S. (2013). Rebound of a confined granular material: combination of a bouncing ball and a granular damper. Scientific reports, 3, 2158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, H.-K., Bergmann, S., & Pandolfi, P. P. (2004). Cytoplasmic PML function in TGF-beta signalling. Nature, 431(7005), 205–211.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Puentes, G., Waldherr, G., Neumann, P., Balasubramanian, G., & Wrachtrup, J. (2014). Efficient route to high-bandwidth nanoscale magnetometry using single spins in diamond. Scientific reports, 4, 4677.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher, C., & Böhm, S. (2005). Diabetes and the Kidney. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fløistad, G. (Ed.). (2010). Philosophy of Religion (1st ed., Vol. 10). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Deng, X. (2011). SEDE: A Schema Explorer and Data Extractor for HTML Web Pages. In M. Zhu (Ed.), Information and Management Engineering: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part VI. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 26–33.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). How Notorious HIV Is Being Hijacked To Tackle Cancer,. IFLScience accessed October 30, 2018, available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-notorious-hiv-being-hijacked-tackle-cancer/.

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. (1982). Evaluation of NASA Comments on Consolidated Space Operations Center. 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

Slotnick, A. (2012). Status symbols in triathlete culture. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017). Typically Chummy Ritual Offers Moment of Catharsis. New York Times. April 30, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yong, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pacheco-Vázquez & Dorbolo, 2013; Yong, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pacheco-Vázquez & Dorbolo, 2013)
Three authors: (Lin, Bergmann, & Pandolfi, 2004)
Four or more authors: (Puentes, Waldherr, Neumann, Balasubramanian, & Wrachtrup, 2014)

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