How to format your references using the Navigation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Navigation. 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

L. V. Hooper, “Immunology. Innate lymphoid cells sweeten the pot,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6202, pp. 1248–1249, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

C. H. Bennett and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Quantum information and computation,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6775, pp. 247–255, Mar. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

D. Kaganovich, R. Kopito, and J. Frydman, “Misfolded proteins partition between two distinct quality control compartments,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7208, pp. 1088–1095, Aug. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

M. Ouyang, J. L. Huang, C. L. Cheung, and C. M. Lieber, “Energy gaps in ‘metallic’ single-walled carbon nanotubes,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5517, pp. 702–705, Apr. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. Petrozzi, Practical Instrumental Analysis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

S. Balandin, S. Andreev, and Y. Koucheryavy, Eds., Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 15th International Conference, NEW2AN 2015, and 8th Conference, ruSMART 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 26-28, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015., vol. 9247. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

E. Reiter and S. Williams, “Generating Texts in Different Styles,” in The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, S. Argamon, K. Burns, and S. Dubnov, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 59–75.

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 Navigation.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan, “An Artist Wants To 3D Print Someone’s Laugh In Space,” IFLScience, 09-Dec-2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-artist-wants-to-3d-print-someones-laugh-in-space/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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, “Asbestos in Schools: A Dilemma,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, CED-82-114, Aug. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

D. A. Gates, “Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

M. Schwirtz and J. Turkewitz, “Charred Body of Kidnapped Man Is Found on Long Island,” New York Times, p. A4, 05-Jan-2014.

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	Navigation
Abbreviation	Navigation (Wash.)
ISSN (print)	0028-1522
ISSN (online)	2161-4296
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering