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

Barry, C.E.: ‘Tuberculosis: Drug discovery goes au naturel’Nature, 2014, 506, (7489), pp. 436–437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Waters, M.R., Stafford, T.W., Jr: ‘Redefining the age of Clovis: implications for the peopling of the Americas’Science, 2007, 315, (5815), pp. 1122–1126.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blüher, M., Kahn, B.B., Kahn, C.R.: ‘Extended longevity in mice lacking the insulin receptor in adipose tissue’Science, 2003, 299, (5606), pp. 572–574.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rothman, J.S., Cathala, L., Steuber, V., Silver, R.A.: ‘Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control’Nature, 2009, 457, (7232), pp. 1015–1018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyatkher, V.M.: ‘Seismic Loads’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015)

An edited book

Malhotra, R. (Ed.): ‘Fossil Energy: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology’ (Springer, 2013)

A chapter in an edited book

DeFrances, M.C.: ‘Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Insights to Therapy’, in Carr, B.I. (Ed.): ‘Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment’ (Humana Press, 2010), pp. 109–130

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

Evans, K.: ‘First Global Analysis Of Alien Species Reveals World’s “Hotspots”’, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-global-analysis-of-alien-species-reveals-worlds-hotspots/, 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: ‘No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth’ (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

Tablason, J.M.: ‘Recollecting’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014

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

Hubbard, B., Schmitt, E., Mazzetti, M.: ‘Ousted Saudi Prince Said To Be Confined to Palace’New York Times, 2017, p. A11.

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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