How to format your references using the Advances in Data Analysis and Classification citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Dunbar R (2003) Psychology. Evolution of the social brain. Science 302:1160–1161

A journal article with 2 authors

Bianco PR, Kowalczykowski SC (2000) Translocation step size and mechanism of the RecBC DNA helicase. Nature 405:368–372

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin G, Xu N, Xi R (2008) Paracrine Wingless signalling controls self-renewal of Drosophila intestinal stem cells. Nature 455:1119–1123

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jeong DW, Choi WS, Okamoto S, et al (2014) Dimensionality control of d-orbital occupation in oxide superlattices. Sci Rep 4:6124

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacaze PC, Lacroix J-C (2014) Non-Volatile Memories. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Johannessen OM (2007) Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Richard J, Robert J-M, Malo S, Migneault J (2011) Giving UI Developers the Power of UI Design Patterns. In: Smith MJ, Salvendy G (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–47

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 Advances in Data Analysis and Classification.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Are Some Species Just Too Wild For A Happy Life In Captivity? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/are-some-species-just-too-wild-happy-life-captivity/. 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 (2011) Airline Passenger Protections: More Data and Analysis Needed to Understand Effects of Flight Delays. 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

Wilensky SE (2010) 340B prime vendor program: Health center decision making and barriers to participation. 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

Kishkovsky S (2015) Yuri Afanasyev, Ex-Communist Scholar, Dies at 81. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dunbar 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bianco and Kowalczykowski 2000; Dunbar 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bianco and Kowalczykowski 2000)
Three or more authors: (Jeong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Abbreviation	Adv. Data Anal. Classif.
ISSN (print)	1862-5347
ISSN (online)	1862-5355
Scope	Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics