How to format your references using the DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. 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

Gravitz L (2011) Introduction: a smouldering public-health crisis. Nature 474:S2-4

A journal article with 2 authors

Orkin SH, Higgs DR (2010) Medicine. Sickle cell disease at 100 years. Science 329:291–292

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian BC, Longarte A, Zwier TS (2002) Conformational dynamics in a dipeptide after single-mode vibrational excitation. Science 296:2369–2373

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Takamori S, Rhee JS, Rosenmund C, Jahn R (2000) Identification of a vesicular glutamate transporter that defines a glutamatergic phenotype in neurons. Nature 407:189–194

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massotte P, Corsi P (2017) Smart Decisions in Complex Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Katayama Y, Maeda T, Kuroiwa T (eds) (2013) Brain Edema XV. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Kerzner DS, Chodikoff DW (2016) International Tax Enforcement in Canada. In: Chodikoff DW (ed) International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 105–152

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 - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) NASA observations put on hold while the moon photobombs the sun. In: IFLScience. 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 (2010) America COMPETES Act: It Is Too Early to Evaluate Programs Long-Term Effectiveness, but Agencies Could Improve Reporting of High-Risk, High-Reward Research Priorities. 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

Johnson R (2010) Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody.” 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

Poniewozik J (2017) A Sequel Rings Familiar, But Keeps the Fun Intact. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Orkin and Higgs 2010; Gravitz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Orkin and Higgs 2010)
Three or more authors: (Takamori et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	DECISION - Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
ISSN (print)	0304-0941
ISSN (online)	2197-1722
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