How to format your references using the Nano Communication Networks citation style

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

R.M. Canup, A giant impact origin of Pluto-Charon, Science 307 (2005) 546–550.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Riddihough, L.M. Zahn, Epigenetics. What is epigenetics? Introduction, Science 330 (2010) 611.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Aizen, M. Sabatino, J.M. Tylianakis, Specialization and rarity predict nonrandom loss of interactions from mutualist networks, Science 335 (2012) 1486–1489.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Dai, R. Ding, M. Li, J. Huang, Y. Li, M. Trevor, Ordering Ag nanowire arrays by spontaneous spreading of volatile droplet on solid surface, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Casandjian, N. Challamel, C. Lanos, J. Hellesland, Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Murgante, O. Gervasi, S. Misra, N. Nedjah, A.M.A.C. Rocha, D. Taniar, B.O. Apduhan, eds., Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012: 12th International Conference, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, June 18-21, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Enslin, M. Tjiattas, Democratic Inclusion and Lifelong Learning in a Globalising World, in: D.N. Aspin, J. Chapman, K. Evans, R. Bagnall (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 77–90.

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 Nano Communication Networks.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Byzantine Skeleton Contains 800-Year-Old DNA From The Infection That Killed Her, IFLScience (2017).

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, Customs Service Modernization: Automated Commercial Environment Progressing, but Further Acquisition Management Improvements Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.M. Goldgof, Drug Target Discovery Using Designer Drug Sensitive Yeast, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

J. Barron, Son of Sam Detective Realized ‘This Has Got to Be the Guy,’ New York Times (2017) A17.

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	Nano Communication Networks
Abbreviation	Nano Commun. Netw.
ISSN (print)	1878-7789
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics