How to format your references using the Social Network Analysis and Mining citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Network Analysis and Mining. 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

Gewin V (2004) Putting pen to paper. Nature 432:418–419

A journal article with 2 authors

Roeb M, Müller-Steinhagen H (2010) Engineering. Concentrating on solar electricity and fuels. Science 329:773–774

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Parquette JR, RajanBabu TV (2009) Regiodivergent ring opening of chiral aziridines. Science 326:1662

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rui G, Abeysinghe DC, Nelson RL, Zhan Q (2013) Demonstration of beam steering via dipole-coupled plasmonic spiral antenna. Sci Rep 3:2237

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stull C, Myers P, Scott DM (2008) Tuned In. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Loriaux L (ed) (2014) Endocrine Emergencies: Recognition and Treatment. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Nakatani M, Ohno T, Katagiri Y, et al (2011) The Layout for the User-Friendly Manual: Case Study on an Internet Set-Up Manual. In: Marcus A (ed) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theory, Methods, Tools and Practice: First International Conference, DUXU 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–45

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 Social Network Analysis and Mining.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) NASA Selects Instruments To Send To Europa In Search Of Alien Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/europa-mission-instument-breakdown/. 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 (2005) Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations. 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

Vail AS (2012) The gift of noetic image: Spontaneous imagery and psychological well-being in women with breast cancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Chapman MM (2017) For the Aged, Self-Driving Cars Could Bridge a Mobility Gap. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2004; Roeb and Müller-Steinhagen 2010).

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

Two authors: (Roeb and Müller-Steinhagen 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rui et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Network Analysis and Mining
Abbreviation	Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.
ISSN (print)	1869-5450
ISSN (online)	1869-5469
Scope	Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Information Systems Media Technology Communication