How to format your references using the Nexus Network Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nexus Network Journal. 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

Piot, Philippe. 2015. Particle physics: Positrons ride the wave. Nature 524: 422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez, Peter, and Michael M. J. Treacy. 2013. Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature 503: E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Risk, Joanna M., Richard C. Macknight, and Catherine L. Day. 2008. FCA does not bind abscisic acid. Nature 456: E5-6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vanhaereny, Marian, Francesco d’Errico, Chris Stringer, Sarah L. James, Jonathan A. Todd, and Henk K. Mienis. 2006. Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1785–1788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loughran, Maire. 2010. Auditing for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Gould, Ian M., and Jos W. M. van der Meer, ed. 2005. Antibiotic Policies: Theory and Practice. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Pruteanu-Podpiera, Anca, Laurent Weill, and Franziska Schobert. 2016. Banking Competition and Efficiency: A Micro-Data Analysis on the Czech Banking Industry. In Global Banking Crises and Emerging Markets, ed. Josef C. Brada and Paul Wachtel, 52–74. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Nexus Network Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. Brand New Observations Of The Sun Show A Turtle-Shaped Spot. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 18.

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. 1987. Railroad Regulation: Competitive Access and Its Effects on Selected Railroads and Shippers. RCED-87-109. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolfenden, Andrew. 2012. Factors predicting oncology care providers’ behavioral intention to adopt clinical decision support systems. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

de la MERCED, Michael J., and Cecilia Kang. 2017. TV Station Owners Rush to Seize on Looser Rules. New York Times, May 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piot 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rez and Treacy 2013; Piot 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rez and Treacy 2013)
Three or more authors: (Vanhaereny et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nexus Network Journal
ISSN (print)	1590-5896
ISSN (online)	1522-4600
Scope