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

Brody, H., 2011. Hepatitis C. Nature 474, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rizzoli, S.O., Betz, W.J., 2004. The structural organization of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles. Science 303, 2037–2039.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, P., Wang, J., Shi, Y., 2010. Structure and mechanism of the S component of a bacterial ECF transporter. Nature 468, 717–720.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hou, J., Cao, C., Ma, X., Idrees, F., Xu, B., Hao, X., Lin, W., 2014. From rice bran to high energy density supercapacitors: a new route to control porous structure of 3D carbon. Sci. Rep. 4, 7260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nappi, E., Peskov, V., 2013. Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Vande Wouwer, A., 2014. Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB: Scientific and Engineering Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cebamanos, L., Henty, D., Richardson, H., Hart, A., 2015. Auto-tuning an OpenACC Accelerated Version of Nek5000, in: Markidis, S., Laure, E. (Eds.), Solving Software Challenges for Exascale: International Conference on Exascale Applications and Software, EASC 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2-3, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–81.

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

Andrew, D., 2017. Comets or Volcanoes? Scientists Are Changing Their Minds About How the Earth’s Water Got Here [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/comets-or-volcanoes-scientists-are-changing-their-minds-about-how-the-earths-water-got-here/ (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, 1998. Information Technology: Department of Energy Does Not Effectively Manage Its Supercomputers (No. RCED-98-208). 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

Danso Odei, P.K., 2017. Effective Resolution of The Bibiani-Anhwianso-Bekwai District Healthcare Delivery System: An Outcome-Based Evaluative Case (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Corkery, M., Cowley, S., 2017. For Better or Worse, Debt Reaches New Peak. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2011; Rizzoli and Betz, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rizzoli and Betz, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hou 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

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