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

Becchetti FD (2002) Nuclear fusion. Evidence for nuclear reactions in imploding bubbles. Science 295:1850

A journal article with 2 authors

Sime LC, Wolff EW (2011) Antarctic accumulation seasonality. Nature 479:E1-2; author reply E2-4

A journal article with 3 authors

Talkington MWT, Siuzdak G, Williamson JR (2005) An assembly landscape for the 30S ribosomal subunit. Nature 438:628–632

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cotton FA, Gruhn NE, Gu J, et al (2002) Closed-shell molecules that ionize more readily than cesium. Science 298:1971–1974

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bannwarth H (2005) Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Zseby T, Savola R, Pistore M (2010) Future Internet - FIS 2009: Second Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2009, Berlin, Germany, September 1-3, 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ogawa K, Sterken E, Tokutsu I (2009) Multiple Bank Relationships and the Main Bank System: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Japanese Small Firms and Main Banks. In: Calcagnini G, Saltari E (eds) The Economics of Imperfect Markets: The Effects of Market Imperfections on Economic Decision-Making. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 73–90

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

Andrew E (2015) Children From Non-Religious Homes Are More Generous Than Their Peers, Study Suggests. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/children-non-religious-homes-are-more-generous-their-peers-study-suggests/. 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 (1978) Comments on the Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act of 1978. 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

Skutt S (2017) Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgeman. New York Times MM24

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