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

Blow, N.: Tissue preparation: Tissue issues. Nature. 448, 959–963 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Edmunds, J.W., Mahadevan, L.C.: Cell signaling. Protein kinases seek close encounters with active genes. Science. 313, 449–451 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi, Y., Yoshizaki, G., Takeuchi, T.: Biotechnology: surrogate broodstock produces salmonids. Nature. 430, 629–630 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, Y., Patolsky, F., Katz, E., Hainfeld, J.F., Willner, I.: “Plugging into Enzymes”: nanowiring of redox enzymes by a gold nanoparticle. Science. 299, 1877–1881 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, A.: Fracture Mechanics 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA (2012)

An edited book

Walton-Roberts, M., Hennebry, J. eds: Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Rzoska, S.J., Drozd-Rzoska, A.: Comments on Nonlinear Dielectric Effect Measurements in Liquids. In: Rzoska, S.J. and Zhelezny, V.P. (eds.) Nonlinear Dielectric Phenomena in Complex Liquids. pp. 55–56. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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

Carpineti, A.: Intelligent Dressing Glows When Wounds Are Infected, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/intelligent-dressing-detects-infections-wounds/

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: Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herrera, E.C.: Emancipating youth from foster care: A content analysis of existing literature, (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

MacFARQUHAR, N.: Conspiracy Theories Mix With Somber Condolences, (2015)

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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