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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

G. Schilling, “Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A hundred million points of light,” Nature, vol. 407, no. 6804, p. 557, Oct. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

R. Righelato and D. V. Spracklen, “Environment. Carbon mitigation by biofuels or by saving and restoring forests?,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5840, p. 902, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

P. D. Pearson, E. Moje, and C. Greenleaf, “Literacy and science: each in the service of the other,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5977, pp. 459–463, Apr. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

K. L. Spalding, B. A. Buchholz, L.-E. Bergman, H. Druid, and J. Frisén, “Forensics: age written in teeth by nuclear tests,” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7057, pp. 333–334, Sep. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

G. Horrocks, Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

D. Schanz, Business Taxation and Financial Decisions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

R. Leary and J. Thomas, “How Complexity Theory is Changing the Role of Analysis in Law Enforcement and National Security,” in Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime, B. Akhgar and S. Yates, Eds. London: Springer, 2011, 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, “Hearing Restored in Mice with Genetic Deafness using Gene Therapy,” IFLScience, 08-Jul-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hearing-restored-mice-genetic-deafness-using-gene-therapy/. [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, “Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-161939, Aug. 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

S. Rajagopal, “Assessing water management impacts of climate change for a semi-arid watershed in the southwestern US,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2012.

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

C. Kelly, “Texas Film: It’s Not Just About Slackers Anymore,” New York Times, p. A27B, 20-Jan-2013.

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