How to format your references using the IET Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET 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	Download the output style file
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

Shepherd, G.M.: ‘Smell images and the flavour system in the human brain’Nature, 2006, 444, (7117), pp. 316–321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Govers, F., Angenent, G.C.: ‘Plant science. Fertility goddesses as Trojan horses’Science, 2010, 330, (6006), pp. 922–923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zachos, J.C., Dickens, G.R., Zeebe, R.E.: ‘An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics’Nature, 2008, 451, (7176), pp. 279–283.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Quinn, A.E., Georges, A., Sarre, S.D., Guarino, F., Ezaz, T., Graves, J.A.M.: ‘Temperature sex reversal implies sex gene dosage in a reptile’Science, 2007, 316, (5823), p. 411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson, B., Vignaux, G.A., Berger, C.E.H.: ‘Interpreting Evidence’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016)

An edited book

Martínez Pérez, G., Thampi, S.M., Ko, R., Shu, L. (Eds.): ‘Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: Second International Conference, SNDS 2014, Trivandrum, India, March 13-14, 2014, Proceedings’ (Springer, 2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Alvi, A.N., Bouk, S.H., Ahmed, S.H., Yaqub, M.A.: ‘Influence of Backoff Period in Slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4’, in Mamatas, L., Matta, I., Papadimitriou, P., Koucheryavy, Y. (Eds.): ‘Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 14th IFIP WG 6.2 International Conference, WWIC 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 25-27, 2016, Proceedings’ (Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 40–51

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 IET Networks.

Blog post

Davis, J.: ‘Live Dolphins FedEx’d From Hawaii To Arizona For New Tourist Attraction’, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/live-dolphins-fedexd-from-hawaii-to-arizona-for-new-tourist-attraction/, accessed October 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: ‘Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Actions Needed to Clarify Responsibilities and Increase Preparedness for Evacuations’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva, J.A.: ‘Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico’. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2010

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

Saslow, L.: ‘Oyster Bay Villages Create 2 Emergency Centers’New York Times, 2007, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Networks
ISSN (print)	2047-4954
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