How to format your references using the Digital Communications and Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Communications and 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]

A. Chenn, Eppendorf & Science Prize. Essays on science and society. Making a bigger brain by regulating cell cycle exit, Science 298 (2002) 766–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.J. Williams, M. del C. Jorge y Jorge, Aztec arithmetic revisited: land-area algorithms and Acolhua congruence arithmetic, Science 320 (2008) 72–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Ohde, T. Yaginuma, T. Niimi, Insect morphological diversification through the modification of wing serial homologs, Science 340 (2013) 495–498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Malmström, M. Beck, A. Schmidt, V. Lange, E.W. Deutsch, R. Aebersold, Proteome-wide cellular protein concentrations of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans, Nature 460 (2009) 762–765.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Wilson, Visual Guide to Financial Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J.E. Beletic, J.W. Beletic, P. Amico, eds., Scientific detectors for astronomy 2005: Explorers of the Photon Odyssey, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Farkas, K. Jármai, Tubular Trusses, in: K. Jármai (Ed.), Optimum Design of Steel Structures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 61–107.

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 Digital Communications and Networks.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Mysterious Dimming Star May Have A Giant Cloud Of Material Orbiting It, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-dimming-star-may-have-a-giant-cloud-of-material-orbiting-it/ (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, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Grace-McCaskey, Fishermen, Politics, and Participation: An Ethnographic Examination of Commercial Fisheries Management in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2012.

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]

E. Lichtblau, Maryland Man Accused of Tapping Money From ISIS Operatives for a U.S. Attack, New York Times (2015) A26.

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	Digital Communications and Networks
Abbreviation	Digit. Commun. Netw.
ISSN (print)	2352-8648
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