How to format your references using the Ad Hoc Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ad Hoc 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

M.V. Rodnina, Biochemistry. Translocation in action, Science 340 (2013) 1534–1535.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Schwander, L. Keller, Genetic compatibility affects queen and worker caste determination, Science 322 (2008) 552.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.J. Elsässer, C.D. Allis, P.W. Lewis, Cancer. New epigenetic drivers of cancers, Science 331 (2011) 1145–1146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Xia, O. Smith, N. Zmora, S. Xu, Y. Zohar, Comprehensive analysis of GnRH2 neuronal projections in zebrafish, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Summers, Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

V. Pohl, Advanced Topics in System and Signal Theory: A Mathematical Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Fleige, A Necessary Aspect of the Generalized Beals Condition for the Riesz Basis Property of Indefinite Sturm-Liouville Problems, in: K.-H. Förster, P. Jonas, H. Langer, C. Trunk (Eds.), Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2007: pp. 89–94.

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 Ad Hoc Networks.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bicycle-bottle-system-condenses-humidity-air-drinkable-water/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Assessment of the Explanation That Immigration and Customs Enforcement Provided for Its Subsequent Transfer from the Spectrum Relocation Fund, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.K. Lamb, A Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Roundabout and a Signalized Intersection in a Mid-Sized City, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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

[1]

G. Vecsey, Bell Rings Again at Yankee Stadium, New York Times (2010) D5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Ad Hoc Networks
Abbreviation	Ad Hoc Netw.
ISSN (print)	1570-8705
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software