How to format your references using the Chaos citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chaos. 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 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

¹ R. Triendl, “Breaking down biological borders,” Nature 418(6899), 7 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ S.A. West, and B.C. Sheldon, “Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment,” Science 295(5560), 1685–1688 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ T. Goebel, M.R. Waters, and M. Dikova, “The archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas,” Science 301(5632), 501–505 (2003).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ X. Chen, H.-R. Park, N.C. Lindquist, J. Shaver, M. Pelton, and S.-H. Oh, “Squeezing millimeter waves through a single, nanometer-wide, centimeter-long slit,” Sci. Rep. 4, 6722 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ E. Biech, 101 More Ways to Make Training Active (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015).

An edited book

¹ C.-M. Lam, and J. Park, editors , Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (Springer, Singapore, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ A.K. Goyal, G. Rath, and T. Garg, “Nanotechnological Approaches for Genetic Immunization,” in DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases, edited by V.A. Erdmann and J. Barciszewski, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013), pp. 67–120.

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 Chaos.

Blog post

¹ E. Andrew, “Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral,” IFLScience, (2014).

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, Academy Preparatory Schools (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ A.J. Hawkins, Measurement of the Spacial Distribution of Heat Exchange in a Geothermal Analog Bedrock Site Using Fiber-Otic Distributed Temperature Sensing, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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 J. Herrman, “An Election Ill Timed for Media in Transition,” New York Times, B1 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Chaos
Abbreviation	Chaos
ISSN (print)	1054-1500
ISSN (online)	1089-7682
Scope	Applied Mathematics Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy Statistical and Nonlinear Physics