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

Westall, F., 2009. Geochemistry. Life on an anaerobic planet. Science 323, 471–472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanderson, W.C., Scherbov, S., 2010. Demography. Remeasuring aging. Science 329, 1287–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okada, D., Ozawa, F., Inokuchi, K., 2009. Input-specific spine entry of soma-derived Vesl-1S protein conforms to synaptic tagging. Science 324, 904–909.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siddall, M., Rohling, E.J., Almogi-Labin, A., Hemleben, C., Meischner, D., Schmelzer, I., Smeed, D.A., 2003. Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle. Nature 423, 853–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, R., 2005. Rational Choice and Judgment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Eddahbi, M., Essaky, E.H., Vives, J. (Eds.), 2016. Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance: CIMPA School, Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna, Morocco, April 2013, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Mühlberg, J.T., Cleemput, S., Mustafa, M.A., Van Bulck, J., Preneel, B., Piessens, F., 2016. An Implementation of a High Assurance Smart Meter Using Protected Module Architectures, in: Foresti, S., Lopez, J. (Eds.), Information Security Theory and Practice: 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 26–27, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–69.

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

Hale, T., 2016. The “World’s Saddest Polar Bear” Lives In A Chinese Mall [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-worlds-saddest-polar-bear-lives-in-a-chinese-mall-/ (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, 2006. NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Program Requires More Knowledge (No. GAO-06-817R). 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

Riley, J.M., 2017. Was Sloth the Ultimate Slow Food? An Archaeological Examination of Padre Nuestro Cavern, Dominican Republic (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Aiding and Abetting Operatic Dabblers. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Westall, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Sanderson and Scherbov, 2010; Westall, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Sanderson and Scherbov, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Siddall et al., 2003)

About the journal

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