How to format your references using the Journal on Data Semantics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal on Data Semantics. 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

Groves JT (2006) Chemistry. Unveiling the membrane domains. Science 313:1901–1902

A journal article with 2 authors

Rhie J, Romanowicz B (2004) Excitation of Earth’s continuous free oscillations by atmosphere-ocean-seafloor coupling. Nature 431:552–556

A journal article with 3 authors

Ledderose J, Dieter S, Schwarz MK (2013) Maturation of postnatally generated olfactory bulb granule cells depends on functional γ-protocadherin expression. Sci Rep 3:1514

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu A, Ren X, An M, et al (2014) A combined theoretical and experimental study for silver electroplating. Sci Rep 4:3837

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D (2016) A History of Modern Drama. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pan Y, Chen D, Guo M, et al (2005) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Third International Symposium, ISPA 2005, Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Zimmermann RJ (2008) Equity Considerations in the Access to Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Zajda J, Biraimah K, Gaudelli W (eds) Education and Social Inequality in the Global Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–83

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 on Data Semantics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) City Installs Special Traffic Lights For 'Smartphone Zombies”. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/city-installs-special-traffic-lights-smartphone-zombies/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2009) Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role. 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

Moreno S (2009) Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2010) Celebrating South Africa and a Job Done Well. New York Times SP1

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	Journal on Data Semantics
Abbreviation	J. Data Semant.
ISSN (print)	1861-2032
ISSN (online)	1861-2040
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems