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

Blair HT (2014) Neuroscience. Charting the islands of memory. Science 343:846–847

A journal article with 2 authors

Côté J-F, Vuori K (2009) Cell biology. Two lipids that give direction. Science 324:346–347

A journal article with 3 authors

McGaha TL, Sorrentino B, Ravetch JV (2005) Restoration of tolerance in lupus by targeted inhibitory receptor expression. Science 307:590–593

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Coudreuse DYM, Roël G, Betist MC, et al (2006) Wnt gradient formation requires retromer function in Wnt-producing cells. Science 312:921–924

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Swatton PJ (2010) Principles of Flight for Pilots. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Prouff E (2011) Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 10th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2011, Leuven, Belgium, September 14-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tan Z, Li X, Mao W (2011) Agent-Based Modeling of Netizen Groups in Chinese Internet Events. In: Chau M, Wang GA, Zheng X, et al (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2011, Beijing, China, July 9, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–53

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) NASA Flying Saucer Test Launch Delayed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasa-flying-saucer-test-launch-delayed/. 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 (2010) Head Start: Undercover Testing Finds Fraud and Abuse at Selected Head Start Centers. 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

DeReus DL (2012) The correlation between career anchors and satisfaction - a comparative analysis of multiple affiliations under a single organizational structure. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Saslow L (2007) Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times 14LI2

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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