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

Smith, B. D. (2007). Behavior. The ultimate ecosystem engineers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1797–1798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castro, J. M., & Dingwell, D. B. (2009). Rapid ascent of rhyolitic magma at Chaitén volcano, Chile. Nature, 461(7265), 780–783.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gavazzi, G., Bisio, A., & Pozzo, T. (2013). Time perception of visual motion is tuned by the motor representation of human actions. Scientific Reports, 3, 1168.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Walensky, L. D., Kung, A. L., Escher, I., Malia, T. J., Barbuto, S., Wright, R. D., Wagner, G., Verdine, G. L., & Korsmeyer, S. J. (2004). Activation of apoptosis in vivo by a hydrocarbon-stapled BH3 helix. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5689), 1466–1470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laheurte, J.-M., Ripoll, C., Paret, D., & Loussert, C. (2014). UHF RFID Technologies for Identification and Traceability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Avresky, D. R., Diaz, M., Bode, A., Ciciani, B., & Dekel, E. (Eds.). (2010). Cloud Computing: First International Conference, CloudComp 2009 Munich, Germany, October 19–21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 34). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kainen, P. C., & Kůrková, V. (2008). Estimates of Network Complexity and Integral Representations. In V. Kůrková, R. Neruda, & J. Koutník (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008: 18th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 31–40). Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2015, October 10). Ever Wondered How Astronauts Get Into Their Spacesuits? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ever-wondered-how-astronauts-get-their-space-suits/

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. (2010). 2010 Census: Key Enumeration Activities Are Moving Forward, but Information Technology Systems Remain a Concern (GAO-10-430T). 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

Makovec, M. G. (2008). A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Johnson, G. (2015, January 20). Living at Random. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Castro & Dingwell, 2009; Smith, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Castro & Dingwell, 2009)
Three authors: (Gavazzi et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Walensky et al., 2004)

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