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

Beyea J (2010) Science and society. The smart electricity grid and scientific research. Science 328:979–980

A journal article with 2 authors

Greif DM, Eichmann A (2014) Vascular biology: Brain vessels squeezed to death. Nature 508:50–51

A journal article with 3 authors

Bejan A, Ziaei S, Lorente S (2014) Evolution: why all plumes and jets evolve to round cross sections. Sci Rep 4:4730

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Russ WP, Lowery DM, Mishra P, et al (2005) Natural-like function in artificial WW domains. Nature 437:579–583

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GA (2015) Pesticides. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Shively JM (ed) (2006) Inclusions in Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Noble J, Piddocke R, Bakmand-Mikalski D (2011) Deploying the Search Center. In: Piddocke R, Bakmand-Mikalski D (eds) Pro SharePoint 2010 Search. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 109–119

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

Fang J (2014) Teenager Invents Device That Lets User Communicate With Just Exhales. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/teenager-invents-device-lets-user-communicate-just-exhales/. 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 (1993) NASA Aeronautics: Impact of Technology Transfer Activities Is Uncertain. 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

Wicks CF (2017) The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Burghardt LF (2006) Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times 14NJ6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beyea 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Beyea 2010; Greif and Eichmann 2014).

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

Two authors: (Greif and Eichmann 2014)
Three or more authors: (Russ et al. 2005)

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