How to format your references using the Social Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Networks. 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	Download the output style file
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

Corbyn, Z., 2011. Science education: Research on the reservation. Nature 471, 25–26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, B.L., June, C.H., 2013. Perspective: assembly line immunotherapy. Nature 498, S17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alle, H., Roth, A., Geiger, J.R.P., 2009. Energy-efficient action potentials in hippocampal mossy fibers. Science 325, 1405–1408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nagyvary, J., DiVerdi, J.A., Owen, N.L., Tolley, H.D., 2006. Wood used by Stradivari and Guarneri. Nature 444, 565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya, S., 2010. Computational Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Iannaccone, G., 2014. Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030: Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficient Buildings, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Sharp, H., 2008. Adopting Agile in a Large Organisation, in: Abrahamsson, P., Baskerville, R., Conboy, K., Fitzgerald, B., Morgan, L., Wang, X. (Eds.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–52.

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 Networks.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. They May be Huge, But Just How Deadly Are Huntsman Spiders? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. ADP Budget: Department of the Army’s Information Technology Systems Obligations (No. IMTEC-89-47FS). 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

Berkland, M., 2015. Strain analysis of a detachment shear zone (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2008. A Treasure Is Restored, With Culture Its Bounty. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corbyn, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Corbyn, 2011; Levine and June, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Levine and June, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nagyvary et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Networks
Abbreviation	Soc. Networks
ISSN (print)	0378-8733
Scope	General Psychology General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science Anthropology