There are many choices - in Engineering, most comply with IEEE or APA and occasionally others. The hint: Be consistent.
There are many tools to help organize data. In order to learn more about this, you may want to become familiar with the Data Carpentries for which the library holds classes teaching the software to manage data. Workshops are taught in Python, OpenRefine, R, Unix, GitHub for version control.
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