How to format your references using the Journal of Network and Computer Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 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

Leovy, C., 2001. Weather and climate on Mars. Nature 412, 245–249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Besenbacher, F., Nørskov, J.K., 2000. SURFACE SCIENCE: How to Power a Nanomotor. Science 290, 1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiner, S.L., Sallusto, F., Lanzavecchia, A., 2007. Division of labor with a workforce of one: challenges in specifying effector and memory T cell fate. Science 317, 622–625.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahmadi, M., Bruschi, D.E., Sabín, C., Adesso, G., Fuentes, I., 2014. Relativistic quantum metrology: exploiting relativity to improve quantum measurement technologies. Sci. Rep. 4, 4996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Black, R., 2016. Pragmatic Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Gregor, J., 2011. Discovering Mathematics: A Problem-Solving Approach to Mathematical Analysis with MATHEMATICA® and Maple^TM. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Bravetti, M., Zavattaro, G., 2007. Towards a Unifying Theory for Choreography Conformance and Contract Compliance, in: Lumpe, M., Vanderperren, W. (Eds.), Software Composition: 6th International Symposium, SC 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–50.

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 Network and Computer Applications.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Oldest Known Fish Hooks Found In A Japanese Island Cave [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/oldest-known-fish-hooks-found-in-a-japanese-island-cave/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Information Technology: Major Federal Networks That Support Homeland Security Functions (No. GAO-04-375). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jujhavarapu, S., 2017. Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Joseph, Y., 2017. Passage Home for a Pioneer’s House. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Leovy, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Besenbacher and Nørskov, 2000; Leovy, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Besenbacher and Nørskov, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ahmadi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Abbreviation	J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1084-8045
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture