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

Jungkind D (2001) Tech.Sight. Molecular testing for infectious disease. Science 294:1553–1555

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee J-W, Helmann JD (2006) The PerR transcription factor senses H2O2 by metal-catalysed histidine oxidation. Nature 440:363–367

A journal article with 3 authors

Cymes GD, Ni Y, Grosman C (2005) Probing ion-channel pores one proton at a time. Nature 438:975–980

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xie C-L, Wang W-W, Zhang S-F, et al (2014) Levodopa/benserazide microsphere (LBM) prevents L-dopa induced dyskinesia by inactivation of the DR1/PKA/P-tau pathway in 6-OHDA-lesioned Parkinson’s rats. Sci Rep 4:7506

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clarke A, Thompson A, Jenkinson E, et al (2013) CBT for Appearance Anxiety. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Benettin G (2005) Hamiltonian Dynamics. Theory and Applications: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E.-E.M.S. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 1-10, 1999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Cherifi C, Labatut V, Santucci J-F (2011) On Flexible Web Services Composition Networks. In: Cherifi H, Zain JM, El-Qawasmeh E (eds) Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications: International Conference, DICTAP 2011, Dijon, France, June 21-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–59

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 (2013) Increasing Antibiotic Efficacy With Silver. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/increasing-antibiotic-efficacy-silver/. 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) U.S.-EC Aircraft Agreement. 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

Belflower KE (2012) The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Towns Demand Electricity. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jungkind 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jungkind 2001; Lee and Helmann 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Helmann 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al. 2014)

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

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