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 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

Padyukov L (2010) Journal club. A human geneticist explores genetic diversity in Asia. Nature 464:653

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura M, Somerville S (2002) Plant biology. Resisting attack. Science 295:2032–2033

A journal article with 3 authors

Moellering ER, Muthan B, Benning C (2010) Freezing tolerance in plants requires lipid remodeling at the outer chloroplast membrane. Science 330:226–228

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kahr B, Freudenthal J, Phillips S, Kaminsky W (2009) Herapathite. Science 324:1407

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan AR, Briggs AH (2006) Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Anastassiou GA (2016) Intelligent Numerical Methods II: Applications to Multivariate Fractional Calculus. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Maher CA, Sran MK, Yankelewitz D (2010) Building an Inductive Argument. In: Maher CA, Powell AB, Uptegrove EB (eds) Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 45–57

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 (2015) Friend Or Foe: What The Shape Of Your Face Says About You. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/friend-or-foe-what-shape-your-face-says-about-you/. 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 (1977) Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75. 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

Smith SM (2017) The Relationship Between Political Affiliation and Student Achievement in the Areas of Reading and Mathematics, with Respect to Black Students. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Wagner J (2017) Asked Yet Again for Multiple Innings, Mets’ Bullpen Lets a Game Slip Away. New York Times D5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padyukov 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Nishimura and Somerville 2002; Padyukov 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nishimura and Somerville 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kahr et al. 2009)

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