How to format your references using the EPJ Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EPJ Data Science. 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

Simmons D (2000) Madame Bovary, c’est moi. Nature 407:137

A journal article with 2 authors

Winkowski DE, Knudsen EI (2006) Top-down gain control of the auditory space map by gaze control circuitry in the barn owl. Nature 439:336–339

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller PM, Gavrilets S, Rice WR (2006) Sexual conflict via maternal-effect genes in ZW species. Science 312:73

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bonhoeffer S, Chappey C, Parkin NT, et al (2004) Evidence for positive epistasis in HIV-1. Science 306:1547–1550

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher M, Wolf A (2014) Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Werf J van der, Graser H-U, Frankham R, Gondro C (2009) Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Howe AS (2013) Knobology. In: Daniels JM, Dexter WW (eds) Basics of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. Springer, New York, NY, pp 11–13

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 EPJ Data Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Spread Of Multi-Drug Resistant Typhoid Threatens Public Health. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spread-multi-drug-resistant-typhoid-threatens-public-health/. 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 (2000) Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved. 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

Mathew J (2008) Examining the relationship between secondary school head teachers’ leadership and teachers’ satisfaction in Kerala, India. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wagner J (2016) Forget the Waist; It’s More About the Wrist. New York Times B10

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	EPJ Data Science
Abbreviation	EPJ Data Sci.
ISSN (online)	2193-1127
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