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

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

P. A. Barker, “Atmospheric science. The monsoon’s past,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5829, pp. 1295–1296, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Vernot and J. M. Akey, “Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes,” Science, vol. 343, no. 6174, pp. 1017–1021, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. K. G. Ackerman, M. M. Lovell, and D. J. Weix, “Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates,” Nature, vol. 524, no. 7566, pp. 454–457, Aug. 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Fujishiro et al., “Establishment of an experimental ferret ocular hypertension model for the analysis of central visual pathway damage,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6501, Oct. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. B. Wolbarst, P. Capasso, and A. R. Wyant, Medical Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

T. K. Nath, Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh, vol. 22. in World Forests, vol. 22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Bujak, Z. Śliwa, and A. Gębczyńska, “Technological Support for Logistics Transportation Systems,” in Transport Systems Telematics: 10th Conference, TST 2010, Katowice – Ustroń, Poland, October 20-23, 2010. Selected Papers, J. Mikulski, Ed., in Communications in Computer and Information Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 38–50.

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 Journal of Communications and Networks.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Engaging The Public With Science Can Yield Unexpected Rewards,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/engaging-public-science-can-yield-unexpected-rewards/

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, “Overstatement of Contract Target Costs for F-1 Rocket Engines for Saturn V Launch Vehicle,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-167838, Dec. 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. M. Tuquero, “A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, “Dominican Players Hone Skills With AidOf Broomsticks,” New York Times, p. SP1, Oct. 06, 2017.

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	Journal of Communications and Networks
Abbreviation	J. Commun. Netw.
ISSN (print)	1229-2370
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems