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

Kendall, K., 2000. Hydrocarbon fuels. Hopes for a flame-free future. Nature 404, 233, 235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chavis, P., Westbrook, G., 2001. Integrins mediate functional pre- and postsynaptic maturation at a hippocampal synapse. Nature 411, 317–321.

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina, J.F., Nores, W.L., Mauk, M.D., 2002. Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses. Nature 416, 330–333.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson, M.D., Oldach, D., Delwiche, C.F., Stoecker, D.K., 2007. Retention of transcriptionally active cryptophyte nuclei by the ciliate Myrionecta rubra. Nature 445, 426–428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinquis, A., 2008. Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB®. ISTE, London, UK.

An edited book

Franz, M., Papadimitratos, P. (Eds.), 2016. Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 9th International Conference, TRUST 2016, Vienna, Austria, August 29-30, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rutschow, S., Noutsias, M., Pauschinger, M., 2010. Myocardial Proteases and Matrix Remodeling in Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy, in: Schultheiss, H.-P., Noutsias, M. (Eds.), Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi): Pathogenesis and Therapy. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 71–88.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Here Are Five Ways The World Could End [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, 1993. Demand Distribution Rolodex Card (No. 154061). 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

Ruby, C.A., 2017. Application of Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) to Remotely Operated Vehicle (Rov) Video Data for Enhanced Geospatial Analysis of Deep Sea Environments (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

James Barron With Eric Lipton G. S. Bourdain, Crow, K., Fabricant, F., 2001. BOLDFACE NAMES. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kendall, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chavis and Westbrook, 2001; Kendall, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Chavis and Westbrook, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2007)

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