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

Hovnanian JS (2000) Let Armenia show why it’s the place for Sesame. Nature 405:508

A journal article with 2 authors

KelIy CK, Bowler MG (2002) Coexistence and relative abundance in forest trees. Nature 417:437–440

A journal article with 3 authors

Nawae W, Hannongbua S, Ruengjitchatchawalya M (2014) Defining the membrane disruption mechanism of kalata B1 via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Sci Rep 4:3933

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blanford JI, Blanford S, Crane RG, et al (2013) Implications of temperature variation for malaria parasite development across Africa. Sci Rep 3:1300

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles R (2012) 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Bandyopadhyay SK, Adi W, Kim T-H, Xiao Y (eds) (2010) Information Security and Assurance: 4th International Conference, ISA 2010, Miyazaki, Japan, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Oishi Y (2016) Mechanisms of Plant Pollutant Uptake as Related to Effective Biomonitoring. In: Kulshrestha U, Saxena P (eds) Plant Responses to Air Pollution. Springer, Singapore, pp 33–44

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 (2015) Equal But not The Same: A Male Bias Reigns In Medical Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/equal-not-same-male-bias-reigns-medical-research/. 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 (2013) Data Center Consolidation: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings Goal. 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

Chen C-Y (2010) The analysis of communication problems and language barriers between patients and physicians in California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD, Nixon R (2017) Ban on Travel Will Be Replaced With New Schedule of Targeted Restrictions. New York Times A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hovnanian 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hovnanian 2000; KelIy and Bowler 2002).

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

Two authors: (KelIy and Bowler 2002)
Three or more authors: (Blanford et al. 2013)

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