How to format your references using the Ad Hoc Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ad Hoc Networks. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

J. Montgomery, Chemistry. High-throughput discovery of new chemical reactions, Science 333 (2011) 1387–1388.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Brookmeyer, N. Blades, Prevention of inhalational anthrax in the U.S. outbreak, Science 295 (2002) 1861.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.W. Schmidt, H.J. Spero, D.W. Lea, Links between salinity variation in the Caribbean and North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, Nature 428 (2004) 160–163.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Kuemmeth, S. Ilani, D.C. Ralph, P.L. McEuen, Coupling of spin and orbital motion of electrons in carbon nanotubes, Nature 452 (2008) 448–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Blanchet, M. Charbit, Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

A. Neustein, J.A. Markowitz, eds., Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Worbs, R. Förster, T Cell Migration Dynamics Within Lymph Nodes During Steady State: An Overview of Extracellular and Intracellular Factors Influencing the Basal Intranodal T Cell Motility, in: M. Dustin, D. McGavern (Eds.), Visualizing Immunity, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 71–105.

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 Ad Hoc Networks.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Check Out This Spectacular Photo Of The Grand Canyon, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/diy-weather-ballon-captures-incredible-footage/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Urban Transportation: Metropolitan Planning Organizations’ Efforts to Meet Federal Planning Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Dimick, A Comparative Study on Pheromone Communication between Schizophyllum species, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Bounty Paid On Dead Chechen Leader, New York Times (2005) A6.

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	Ad Hoc Networks
Abbreviation	Ad Hoc Netw.
ISSN (print)	1570-8705
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software