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

Bradley, A. (2002). Mining the mouse genome. Nature, 420(6915), 512–514.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld, N., & Woese, C. (2007). Biology’s next revolution. Nature, 445(7126), 369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fumagalli, M., O’Meara, J. M., & Prochaska, J. X. (2011). Detection of pristine gas two billion years after the Big Bang. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6060), 1245–1249.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Di Toro, G., Hirose, T., Nielsen, S., Pennacchioni, G., & Shimamoto, T. (2006). Natural and experimental evidence of melt lubrication of faults during earthquakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), 647–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Machin, D., & Campbell, M. J. (2005). Design of Studies for Medical Research. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ameta, K. L., & Dandia, A. (Eds.). (2014). Green Chemistry: Synthesis of Bioactive Heterocycles. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Alvandi, P., Maza, M. M., Schost, É., & Vrbik, P. (2015). A Standard Basis Free Algorithm for Computing the Tangent Cones of a Space Curve. In V. P. Gerdt, W. Koepf, W. M. Seiler, & E. V. Vorozhtsov (Eds.), Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing: 17th International Workshop, CASC 2015, Aachen, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 45–60). Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 1). Check Out This Cool Footage Of Dust Devils Tearing Across Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-this-cool-footage-of-dust-devils-tearing-across-mars/

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. (1995). Tongass Timber Reform Act: Implementation of the Act’s Contract Modification Requirements (RCED-95-2). 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

Zhu, Z. (2010). Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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. (2002, September 15). A Mystery in Harlem. New York Times, 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bradley, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bradley, 2002; Goldenfeld & Woese, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Goldenfeld & Woese, 2007)
Three authors: (Fumagalli et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Di Toro et al., 2006)

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