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

Knight R (2015) Why microbiome treatments could pay off soon. Nature 518:S5

A journal article with 2 authors

Deschenes LA, Vanden Bout DA (2001) Single-molecule studies of heterogeneous dynamics in polymer melts near the glass transition. Science 292:255–258

A journal article with 3 authors

Hummer G, Rasaiah JC, Noworyta JP (2001) Water conduction through the hydrophobic channel of a carbon nanotube. Nature 414:188–190

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carlsson F, Stålhammar-Carlemalm M, Flärdh K, et al (2006) Signal sequence directs localized secretion of bacterial surface proteins. Nature 442:943–946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandridis AK, Zapranis AD (2014) Wavelet Neural Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Leitão J, Alves H (eds) (2016) Entrepreneurial and Innovative Practices in Public Institutions: A Quality of Life Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sheskin I, Dashefsky A (2014) Jewish Population in the United States, 2013. In: Dashefsky A, Sheskin I (eds) American Jewish Year Book 2013: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 201–277

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 (2014) Polar Bears Face Starvation And Cub Loss Due To Sea Ice Loss. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) How Good Are School Lunches? 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

Dalton R (2010) The story of Huo Yuanjia and the narrative of national humiliation in post-Mao China. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly RE (2017) An agenda for South Korea’s new leader. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Deschenes and Vanden Bout 2001; Knight 2015).

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

Two authors: (Deschenes and Vanden Bout 2001)
Three or more authors: (Carlsson et al. 2006)

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