How to format your references using the Journal of Choice Modelling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Choice Modelling. 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

Hakim, A.M., 2014. Perspective: silent, but preventable, perils. Nature 510, S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parnell, R.J., Buchanan-Smith, H.M., 2001. Animal behaviour. An unusual social display by gorillas. Nature 412, 294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carporzen, L., Gilder, S.A., Hart, R.J., 2005. Palaeomagnetism of the Vredefort meteorite crater and implications for craters on Mars. Nature 435, 198–201.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kröll, J., Darmo, J., Dhillon, S.S., Marcadet, X., Calligaro, M., Sirtori, C., Unterrainer, K., 2007. Phase-resolved measurements of stimulated emission in a laser. Nature 449, 698–701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot, G., La Borderie, C., Reess, T., Chen, W., Maurel, O., Rey-Berbeder, F., de Ferron, A., 2016. Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lovrek, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), 2008. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bozovic, I., 2007. Possible Jahn–Teller Effect and Strong Electron–Phonon Coupling in Beryllium Hydride, in: Bussmann-Holder, A., Keller, H. (Eds.), High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–55.

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 Journal of Choice Modelling.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Researchers Discover Huge Mega-Predator Dinosaur [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-discover-huge-mega-predator-dinosaur/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Federal Vehicle Fleets: Leading Practices for Managing Fleet Operations (No. GAO-15-644T). 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

Boos, A.L., 2015. The post-abortion experience: A content analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Burghardt, L.F., 2006. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times LI10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hakim, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hakim, 2014; Parnell and Buchanan-Smith, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Parnell and Buchanan-Smith, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kröll et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Choice Modelling
ISSN (print)	1755-5345
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Modelling and Simulation