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

M. Sur, “Breathing life into biology,” Nature, vol. 436, no. 7050, p. 487, Jul. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

A. B. Krueger and A. A. Stone, “Psychology and economics. Progress in measuring subjective well-being,” Science, vol. 346, no. 6205, pp. 42–43, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

A. Poot-Salazar, Á. Hernández-Flores, and P.-L. Ardisson, “Use of the SLW index to calculate growth function in the sea cucumber Isostichopus badionotus,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5151, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

M. Bergemann, B. Sesar, J. G. Cohen, A. M. Serenelli, A. Sheffield, T. S. Li, L. Casagrande, K. V. Johnston, C. F. P. Laporte, A. M. Price-Whelan, R. Schönrich, and A. Gould, “Two chemically similar stellar overdensities on opposite sides of the plane of the Galactic disk,” Nature, vol. 555, no. 7696, pp. 334–337, Mar. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

I. Pardoe, Applied Regression Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

A. Rogala, Communication in Organizational Environments: Functions, Determinants and Areas of Influence. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

J. Rahm and A. Gonsalves, “‘To Understand the news you need Science!’ Girls’ Positioning and Subjectivity in and Beyond a Newsletter Activity in an Afterschool Science Program,” in Identity Construction and Science Education Research: Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts, M. Varelas, Ed. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012, pp. 61–78.

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

E. Andrew, “In The Path Of The Polar Bears: What It’s Like To Be An Arctic Scientist,” IFLScience, 04-Sep-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/path-polar-bears-what-it-s-be-arctic-scientist/. [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, “Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Its Oversight Role,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-314T, Dec. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E. Castro Deller, “Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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. M. Lane, “In Forbidden Art, Beauty and Brutality,” New York Times, p. C1, 23-Jan-2016.

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