How to format your references using the Applied Network Science citation style

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

Olveczky BP (2014) Neuroscience: Ordered randomness in fly love songs. Nature 507:177–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang Z, Lin H (2004) Nanos maintains germline stem cell self-renewal by preventing differentiation. Science 303:2016–2019

A journal article with 3 authors

Boos D, Yekezare M, Diffley JFX (2013) Identification of a heteromeric complex that promotes DNA replication origin firing in human cells. Science 340:981–984

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kratchmarova I, Blagoev B, Haack-Sorensen M, et al (2005) Mechanism of divergent growth factor effects in mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Science 308:1472–1477

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ishiyama JT (2011) Comparative Politics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Anastassiou GA (2016) Intelligent Numerical Methods: Applications to Fractional Calculus, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hattotuwagama CK, Doytchinova IA, Guan P, Flower DR (2008) In Silico QSAR-Based Predictions of Class I and Class II MHC Epitopes. In: Schönbach C, Ranganathan S, Brusic V (eds) Immunoinformatics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 63–89

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 Applied Network Science.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) World First Photograph Shows Bird Flying With Egg Bump. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bird-baby-board/. 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 (1974) Salary of Executive Director, National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. 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

Claar PL (2017) A Correlational Study Comparing the Relationship between School Leader Intercultural Development, Selected Demographic Variables, and Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Dynarski S (2014) Where College Ratings Hits the Wall. New York Times BU7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Olveczky 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Lin 2004; Olveczky 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Lin 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kratchmarova et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Network Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Netw. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2364-8228
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