How to format your references using the Computational Social Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Social 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	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

1. Middelburg JJ. Oceanography. Escape by dilution. Science. 2015;348:290.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rampino MR, Caldeira K. Comment on “Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.” Science. 2011;334:594; author reply 594.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Olveczky BP, Baccus SA, Meister M. Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature. 2003;423:401–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang Q, Zhao J, Brady AE, Feng J, Allen PB, Lefkowitz RJ, et al. Spinophilin blocks arrestin actions in vitro and in vivo at G protein-coupled receptors. Science. 2004;304:1940–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anjum B, Perros H. Bandwidth Allocation for Video Under Quality of Service Constraints. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Picken MM, Herrera GA, Dogan A, editors. Amyloid and Related Disorders: Surgical Pathology and Clinical Correlations. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gillibert P, Wehrung F. Getting Larders from Congruence Lattices of First-Order Structures. In: Wehrung F, editor. From Objects to Diagrams for Ranges of Functors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 81–116.

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 Computational Social Networks.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. How Did 4th-Century Roman Coins End Up In A Medieval Japanese Castle? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-did-4thcentury-roman-coins-end-up-in-a-medieval-japanese-castle/

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. International Aviation: DOT Needs Better Data for Monitoring and Decisionmaking. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Jul. Report No.: T-RCED-95-240.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brothers J. Nonparametric regression using wavelet transformations and noise reduction in audio signals [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Williams J. Trump Inspires Cottage Book Trade. New York Times. 2017 Mar 1;C24.

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	Computational Social Networks
Abbreviation	Comput. Soc. Netw.
ISSN (online)	2197-4314
Scope