How to format your references using the Decision Support Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Decision Support Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

V.B. Polyakov, Equilibrium iron isotope fractionation at core-mantle boundary conditions, Science 323 (2009) 912–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.G. Oliveira, A.-L. Barabási, Human dynamics: Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns, Nature 437 (2005) 1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.R. Lampard, C.A. Macalister, D.C. Bergmann, Arabidopsis stomatal initiation is controlled by MAPK-mediated regulation of the bHLH SPEECHLESS, Science 322 (2008) 1113–1116.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.D. Dahl, M.J. Rasch, M. Tomonaga, I. Adachi, The face inversion effect in non-human primates revisited - an investigation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Benmammar, A. Amraoui, Radio Resource Allocation and Dynamic Spectrum Access, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

W. Lindner, M. Mesiti, C. Türker, Y. Tzitzikas, A.I. Vakali, eds., Current Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2004 Workshops: EDBT 2004 Workshops PhD, DataX, PIM, P2P&DB, and ClustWeb, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 14-18, 2004. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.G. Kleinbaum, M. Klein, Maximum Likelihood Techniques: An Overview, in: M. Klein (Ed.), Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 103–127.

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 Support Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Plunging To Earth: Space Station Refuelling Craft Is Out Of Control, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/plunging-earth-space-station-refuelling-craft-out-control/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Staffing: Better Strategy Needed to Ensure Facilities Are Properly Staffed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.H. Stephenson, Ethics and morality in software development: A developer’s perspective, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2010.

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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, Predicting the Staying Power of ‘The Jungle Book,’ New York Times (2016) C26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Decision Support Systems
Abbreviation	Decis. Support Syst.
ISSN (print)	0167-9236
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management Information Systems Information Systems Information Systems and Management Developmental and Educational Psychology