How to format your references using the Online Social Networks and Media citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Online Social Networks and Media. 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

[1]

S. Schaffer, The laird of physics, Nature 471 (2011) 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Schulze, A.L. Harris, How cancer metabolism is tuned for proliferation and vulnerable to disruption, Nature 491 (2012) 364–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.B. Sullivan, J.B. Waterbury, S.W. Chisholm, Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, Nature 424 (2003) 1047–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Erkel, M. Kube, R. Reinhardt, W. Liesack, Genome of Rice Cluster I archaea--the key methane producers in the rice rhizosphere, Science 313 (2006) 370–372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Renaud, K.-H. Kim, M. Cho, Dynamics of Housing in East Asia, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Klin, G.A. Jones, A. Jurišić, M. Muzychuk, I. Ponomarenko, eds., Algorithmic Algebraic Combinatorics and Gröbner Bases, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.M. Müller, E.-E. Steen, A. Hein, Inferring Multi-person Presence in Home Sensor Networks, in: R. Wichert, H. Klausing (Eds.), Ambient Assisted Living: 8. AAL-Kongress 2015,Frankfurt/M, April 29-30. April, 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–56.

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 Online Social Networks and Media.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Chile’s Calbuco Volcano Erupts Without Warning. What Can We Expect Next?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chile-s-calbuco-volcano-erupts-without-warning-what-can-we-expect-next/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal R&D Laboratories--Directors’ Perspectives on Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.R. Abraham, Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2015.

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

[1]

B. Shpigel, Season Over, the Rangers Are Left to Consider What Might Have Been, New York Times (2017) B13.

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	Online Social Networks and Media
ISSN (print)	2468-6964
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