How to format your references using the Data Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Data Science and Engineering. 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

Wollman R (2014) Development. Counting the ways to decode dynamic signals. Science 343:1326–1327

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiessling LL, Kraft MB (2013) Chemistry. A path to complex carbohydrates. Science 341:357–358

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, Li Y, Tsien RW (2009) The dynamic control of kiss-and-run and vesicular reuse probed with single nanoparticles. Science 323:1448–1453

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kerner M, Hohenberg H, Ertl S, et al (2003) Self-organization of dissolved organic matter to micelle-like microparticles in river water. Nature 422:150–154

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen M (2015) Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Boccia F, Leonardi R (2016) The Challenge of the Digital Economy: Markets, Taxation and Appropriate Economic Models. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Casu B, Gall A (2016) The Performance of Building Societies: A Comparative Analysis. In: Gall A (ed) Building Societies in the Financial Services Industry. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 79–98

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 Data Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Source Of Antarctica’s Mysterious “Blood Falls” Discovered. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/source-antarcticas-blood-falls-discovered/. 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 (2000) Security: Breaches at Federal Agencies and Airports. 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

Boyer MD (2009) Organizational improvisation within an episodic planning model: A systems perspective. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Vecsey G (2011) Appetite for Racing, And for Winning. New York Times D4

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	Data Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Data Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2364-1185
ISSN (online)	2364-1541
Scope