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

K. Behnia, “Physics. Elemental complexity,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5888, pp. 497–498, Jul. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

J. Kan and Y. Wang, “Large and fast reversible Li-ion storages in Fe2O3-graphene sheet-on-sheet sandwich-like nanocomposites,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3502, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

X. Bi, R. A. Corpina, and J. Goldberg, “Structure of the Sec23/24-Sar1 pre-budding complex of the COPII vesicle coat,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6904, pp. 271–277, Sep. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

S. Paliwal, P. A. Iglesias, K. Campbell, Z. Hilioti, A. Groisman, and A. Levchenko, “MAPK-mediated bimodal gene expression and adaptive gradient sensing in yeast,” Nature, vol. 446, no. 7131, pp. 46–51, Mar. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. Waupsh, Bankruption. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

F. Duguid, Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action, vol. 1. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

L. Mönch, J. W. Fowler, and S. J. Mason, “Dispatching Approaches,” in Production Planning and Control for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Modeling, Analysis, and Systems, J. W. Fowler and S. J. Mason, Eds. New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 65–104.

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. Fang, “Exoplanet With Gigantic Rings 200 Times Bigger than Saturn’s Discovered,” IFLScience, 27-Jan-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-has-gigantic-rings-200-times-bigger-saturns/. [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, “Federal Highway Programs: Status of Federal Highway Programs in the Absence of Reauthorization,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-98-38, Nov. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. B. Mhatre, “Zone-Clipper,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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. D. Shear and C. Davenport, “World Awaits President’s Decision on U.S. Future in Paris Accord,” New York Times, p. A8, 31-May-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	Navigation
Abbreviation	Navigation (Wash.)
ISSN (print)	0028-1522
ISSN (online)	2161-4296
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering