How to format your references using the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 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

Wehrwein, P.: Stem cells: Repeat to fade. Nature. 492, S12-3 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Vasseur, D.A., Fox, J.W.: Phase-locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator-prey community. Nature. 460, 1007–1010 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Y., Jiang, J., Huang, H.: Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci. Rep. 4, 6305 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, S., Ma, Z., Chen, Z., Yu, S.: Reveal quantum correlation in complementary bases. Sci. Rep. 4, 4036 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, D.F., Malone, S.W.: Macrofinancial Risk Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK (2008)

An edited book

Van Deemen, A., Rusinowska, A. eds: Collective Decision Making: Views from Social Choice and Game Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Ciuprina, G., Villena, J.F., Ioan, D., Ilievski, Z., Kula, S., ter Maten, E.J.W., Mohaghegh, K., Pulch, R., Schilders, W.H.A., Silveira, L.M., Ştefănescu, A., Striebel, M.: Parameterized Model Order Reduction. In: Günther, M. (ed.) Coupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics. pp. 267–359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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 International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Here’s What The Weather Does To Your Body, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-and-why-weather-can-make-humans-behave-strangely/

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: Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flannery, R.: Clustering of Cyclic-Nucleotide-Gated Channels in Olfactory Cilia, (2006)

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

Crow, K.: Warm Feelings on Bleecker Street For a Rough-and-Tumble Life, (2003)

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	International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Data Sci. Anal.
ISSN (print)	2364-415X
ISSN (online)	2364-4168
Scope

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