How to format your references using the Journal of Network and Systems Management citation style

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

Jackson, S.T.: History of science. Alexander von Humboldt and the general physics of the Earth. Science. 324, 596–597 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Han, S., Brunet, A.: Cell biology. Lysosomal lipid lengthens life span. Science. 347, 32–33 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Verhulst, E.C., Beukeboom, L.W., van de Zande, L.: Maternal control of haplodiploid sex determination in the wasp Nasonia. Science. 328, 620–623 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Goldsmith, B.R., Coroneus, J.G., Khalap, V.R., Kane, A.A., Weiss, G.A., Collins, P.G.: Conductance-controlled point functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science. 315, 77–81 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hochstadt, H.: Integral Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1988)

An edited book

Boisseau, P., Houdy, P., Lahmani, M. eds: Nanoscience: Nanobiotechnology and Nanobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Humphreys, H., Winter, B., Paul, M.: Principles of Treatment: Decision Making. In: Winter, B. and Paul, M. (eds.) Infections in the Adult Intensive Care Unit. pp. 55–81. Springer, London (2013)

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 Systems Management.

Blog post

Davis, J.: According To New Study, A Blood Test Could Predict Suicide Risk, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/according-new-study-blood-test-could-predict-suicide-risk/

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: Effects on Users of Commercializing Landsat and the Weather Satellites. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1984)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez, A.X.: Échale Ganas: Engaging, Educating, and Empowering Latino Males at Four-Year Institutions, (2017)

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

Koblin, J.: ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Suspends Production, (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 Network and Systems Management
Abbreviation	J. Netw. Syst. Manag.
ISSN (print)	1064-7570
ISSN (online)	1573-7705
Scope	Strategy and Management Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems