How to format your references using the Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. 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

Astin C (2009) Helping young scientists to speak for themselves. Nature 460:683

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu Q, Paroo Z (2010) Molecular biology. Dicer’s cut and switch. Science 328:314–315

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil P, Crespi BJ, Sandoval CP (2002) Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature 417:440–443

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gerstenberger MC, Wiemer S, Jones LM, Reasenberg PA (2005) Real-time forecasts of tomorrow’s earthquakes in California. Nature 435:328–331

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rees PA (2011) An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Idowu SO (ed) (2016) Key Initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Dimension of CSR in Corporate Entities. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sokolov AV (2010) Applications of Coherent Raman Scattering. In: Hall TJ, Gaponenko SV, Paredes SA (eds) Extreme Photonics & Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–93

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 Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Awesome Anti-Gravity Water Experiment. In: IFLScience. 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 (1981) S. 1657 and H.R. 4564, Research and Development Acts. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tuquero JM (2010) A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Itzkoff D, Bai M, Levin B, et al (2012) The One Page Magazine. New York Times MM9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Astin 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Astin 2009; Liu and Paroo 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Liu and Paroo 2010)
Three or more authors: (Gerstenberger et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
Abbreviation	Netw. Model. Anal. Health Inform. Bioinform.
ISSN (print)	2192-6662
ISSN (online)	2192-6670
Scope	Urology