How to format your references using the Journal of Decision Systems citation style

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

Yamanaka, S. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Of mice and humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6019), 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shneiderman, B., & Preece, J. (2007). Public health. 911.gov. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5814), 944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, S., Jacobsen, S. E., & Reik, W. (2010). Epigenetic reprogramming in plant and animal development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 622–627.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Herzig, S., Hedrick, S., Morantte, I., Koo, S.-H., Galimi, F., & Montminy, M. (2003). CREB controls hepatic lipid metabolism through nuclear hormone receptor PPAR-gamma. Nature, 426(6963), 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. (2006). Spacecraft Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fränti, P., Brown, G., Loog, M., Escolano, F., & Pelillo, M. (Eds.). (2014). Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshop, S+SSPR 2014, Joensuu, Finland, August 20-22, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8621). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bell, K. (2013). Post-conventional Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Social Justice. In M. Alston & K. Whittenbury (Eds.), Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change (pp. 53–61). Springer Netherlands.

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 Decision Systems.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, January 20). Incoming Secretary Of Energy Rick Perry Has No Idea What The Job Actually Is. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/incoming-secretary-energy-rick-perry-no-idea-what-job-is/

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. (1998). Information Security: Serious Weaknesses Put State Department and FAA Operations at Risk (T-AIMD-98-170). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valencia, G. M. (2015). A Phenomenological Study of Adults Earning a Graduate Degree after Age 60 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, July 28). Energy Costs Compared. New York Times, RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamanaka, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Shneiderman & Preece, 2007; Yamanaka, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Shneiderman & Preece, 2007)
Three authors: (Feng et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Herzig et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Decision Systems
Abbreviation	J. Decis. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1246-0125
ISSN (online)	2116-7052
Scope	Management Information Systems Software