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 D. Goldston, “Climate of opportunity,” Nature 445(7125), 248 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ M. Otsuki, and H. Matsukawa, “Systematic breakdown of Amontons’ law of friction for an elastic object locally obeying Amontons’ law,” Sci. Rep. 3, 1586 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ P. Villegas, P. Moretti, and M.A. Muñoz, “Frustrated hierarchical synchronization and emergent complexity in the human connectome network,” Sci. Rep. 4, 5990 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ Y. Yang, W. Lü, Y. Yao, J. Sun, C. Gu, L. Gu, Y. Wang, X. Duan, and R. Yu, “In situ TEM observation of resistance switching in titanate based device,” Sci. Rep. 4, 3890 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ V. S. Bagotsky, A. M. Skundin, and Y. M. Volfkovich, Electrochemical Power Sources (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014).

An edited book

¹ X. Zhang, Vehicle Power Management: Modeling, Control and Optimization (Springer, London, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ J.M. Lyneis, “Business Policy and Strategy, System Dynamics Applications to,” in Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics, edited by R.A. Meyers, (Springer, New York, NY, 2011), pp. 69–92.

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, “The Atlantic Is Entering A Cool Phase That Will Change The World’s Weather,” IFLScience, (2015).

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, Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ A. Prakash, Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975), Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2010.

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. Leland, “Starring in Someone Else’s Film,” New York Times, MB4 (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