How to format your references using the Decision Analytics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Decision Analytics. 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

von Bergmann K. Physics. Magnetic bubbles with a twist. Science. 2015 Jul 17;349(6245):234–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miklius A, Cervelli P. Vulcanology: Interaction between Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Nature. 2003 Jan 16;421(6920):229.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue H-J, Li W-Z, Yang X-K. Assortative mating between two sympatric closely-related specialists: inferred from molecular phylogenetic analysis and behavioral data. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jun 25;4:5436.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bernath PF, Shayesteh A, Tereszchuk K, Colin R. The vibration-rotation emission spectrum of free BeH2. Science. 2002 Aug 23;297(5585):1323–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz ER, Saade GR, Miller H, Davidson CM. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Leal Filho W. Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region. Kovaleva M, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Chia GL, Chia VL. On the Choice Numbers of Some Complete Multipartite Graphs. In: Akiyama J, Chen WYC, Kano M, Li X, Yu Q, editors. Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics and Graph Theory: 7th China-Japan Conference, CJCDGCGT 2005, Tianjin, China, November 18-20, 2005, Xi’an, China, November 22-24, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 30–7.

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 Decision Analytics.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Campaign Profiles Litterers From Their DNA And Posts Reconstructions Of Their Faces [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-you-be-next-face-litter/

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. Strategic Airlift: Improvements in C-5 Mission Capability Can Help Meet Airlift Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Nov. Report No.: NSIAD-96-43.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Miller NY. Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Asia: Agreement On Last Leg Of Border. New York Times. 2005 Jun 3;A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Bergmann 2015).
This sentence cites two references (von Bergmann 2015; Miklius and Cervelli 2003).

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

Two authors: (Miklius and Cervelli 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bernath et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Decision Analytics
Abbreviation	Decis. Anal.
ISSN (online)	2193-8636
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