How to format your references using the Connection Science citation style

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

Sandholm, T. (2015). Computer science. Solving imperfect-information games. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 122–123.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2010). Washing away postdecisional dissonance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5979), 709.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan, X., Shao, M., & Kulkarni, S. R. (2004). A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster. Nature, 427(6972), 326–328.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Watanabe, H., Vriens, J., Prenen, J., Droogmans, G., Voets, T., & Nilius, B. (2003). Anandamide and arachidonic acid use epoxyeicosatrienoic acids to activate TRPV4 channels. Nature, 424(6947), 434–438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Vos, A. (2010). Reversible Computing. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hähnel, S. (Ed.). (2009). Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dubois, E., Kubicki, S., Ramel, S., & Rifaut, A. (2012). Capturing and Aligning Assurance Requirements for Business Services Systems. In C. A. Ardagna, E. Damiani, L. A. Maciaszek, M. Missikoff, & M. Parkin (Eds.), Business System Management and Engineering: From Open Issues to Applications (pp. 71–92). Springer.

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 Connection Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, January 31). Mummified Monk Found In Lotus Position. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mummified-monk-lotus-position/

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. (1989). Health Care: Home Care Experiences of Families With Chronically Ill Children (HRD-89-73). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woods, R. A. (2017). Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Crow, K. (2000, September 15). Youngest of Clarks Joins Olympic Family. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandholm, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Schwarz, 2010; Sandholm, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Schwarz, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Watanabe et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Connection Science
Abbreviation	Conn. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0954-0091
ISSN (online)	1360-0494
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Software