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

Sperandio, V., 2012. Microbiology. Virulence or competition? Science 336, 1238–1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whittall, J.B., Hodges, S.A., 2007. Pollinator shifts drive increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature 447, 706–709.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deana, A., Celesnik, H., Belasco, J.G., 2008. The bacterial enzyme RppH triggers messenger RNA degradation by 5’ pyrophosphate removal. Nature 451, 355–358.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Delpini, D., Battiston, S., Riccaboni, M., Gabbi, G., Pammolli, F., Caldarelli, G., 2013. Evolution of controllability in interbank networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1626.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet, G., Charbit, M., 2015. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Meersman, R., Panetto, H., Dillon, T., Rinderle-Ma, S., Dadam, P., Zhou, X., Pearson, S., Ferscha, A., Bergamaschi, S., Cruz, I.F. (Eds.), 2012. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Morgan, T.M., Cookson, M.S., Netto, G.J., Epstein, J.I., 2012. Bladder Cancer Overview and Staging, in: Hansel, D.E., McKenney, J.K., Stephenson, A.J., Chang, S.S. (Eds.), The Urinary Tract: A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Diagnosis and Management. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 83–112.

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., 2014. Could measles cure cancer? Uh, not exactly… [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-measles-cure-cancer-uh-not-exactly…/ (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. Transition From School to Work: S. 1361 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy (No. T-HRD-93-31). 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

Tian, C.Y., 2010. Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Shear, M.D., Martin, J., 2017. Trump Welcomes West Virginia Governor to G.O.P. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sperandio, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Sperandio, 2012; Whittall and Hodges, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Whittall and Hodges, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Delpini et al., 2013)

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