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

Gaskell, C. Martin. 2010. Close supermassive binary black holes. Nature 463: E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Monk, Jonathan, and Bernhard O. Palsson. 2014. Genetics. Predicting microbial growth. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 1448–1449.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Kihoon, Yu Zhang, and Sang Eun Lee. 2008. Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATM orthologue suppresses break-induced chromosome translocations. Nature 454: 543–546.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hilairet, Nadege, Bruno Reynard, Yanbin Wang, Isabelle Daniel, Sebastien Merkel, Norimasa Nishiyama, and Sylvain Petitgirard. 2007. High-pressure creep of serpentine, interseismic deformation, and initiation of subduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1910–1913.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, André. 2013. IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Caputo, Barbara, Henning Müller, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, James S. Duncan, Fei Wang, and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, ed. 2010. Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support: First MICCAI International Workshop, MCBR-CDS 2009, London, UK, September 20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5853. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rička, Jaro, and Martin Frenz. 2011. Polarized Light: Electrodynamic Fundamentals. In Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue, ed. Ashley J. Welch and Martin J. C. van Gemert, 65–108. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Davis, Josh. 2015. Scientists Break Gene-Editing Record To Create Animal Organs For Human Transplantation. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 13.

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. 2012. Charter Schools: Additional Federal Attention Needed to Help Protect Access for Students with Disabilities. GAO-12-543. 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

Azios, Michael. 2017. The College Experience of Stuttering: An Ethnographic Study. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Ratliff, Ben. 2016. An Online Record Shop for the Faster, Punker Set. New York Times, August 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaskell 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gaskell 2010; Monk and Palsson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Monk and Palsson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hilairet et al. 2007)

About the journal

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