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]

J. Giles, “Relaxed restrictions blamed for rise in foot and mouth,” Nature, vol. 413, no. 6852, p. 98, Sep. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. P. Norris and D. T. Grimes, “Developmental biology. Cilia discern left from right,” Science, vol. 338, no. 6104, pp. 206–207, Oct. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Tosi, P. Teatini, and T. Strozzi, “Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2710, Sep. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Diefenbach, E. R. Jensen, A. M. Jamieson, and D. H. Raulet, “Rae1 and H60 ligands of the NKG2D receptor stimulate tumour immunity,” Nature, vol. 413, no. 6852, pp. 165–171, Sep. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Gao, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Design and Device Modeling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

X. Sun, A. Liu, H.-C. Chao, and E. Bertino, Eds., Cloud Computing and Security: Second International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Nanjing, China, July 29-31, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, vol. 10039. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10039. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Tian and J. Luo, “A VO-Based Two-Stage Replica Replacement Algorithm,” in Network and Parallel Computing: IFIP International Conference, NPC 2007, Dalian, China, September 18-21, 2007. Proceedings, K. Li, C. Jesshope, H. Jin, and J.-L. Gaudiot, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 41–50.

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]

J. Fang, “600-Year-Old Canoe Offers Glimpse of Early Polynesian Explorers,” IFLScience.

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, “FCC: Maritime Communications,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-98-66, Aug. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. C. Moulder, “Comparative analgesic effects of prepulse inhibition and reduced voltage waveforms in defibrillation,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

S. Hodara, “The Art of the Nest,” New York Times, p. WE9, Apr. 24, 2016.

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], [2], [3], [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