How to format your references using the Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 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

[1]

Bonvillian WB. Technology. Advanced manufacturing policies and paradigms for innovation. Science 2013;342:1173–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jewitt DC, Luu J. Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar. Nature 2004;432:731–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Girvetz EH, Jaeger JAG, Thorne JH. Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States.” Science 2007;318:1240; author reply 1240.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu Y, Ye X, Jiang F, Liang C, Chen D, Peng J, et al. C3PO, an endoribonuclease that promotes RNAi by facilitating RISC activation. Science 2009;325:750–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Griskey RG. Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Miesenberger K, Klaus J, Zagler WL, Karshmer AI, editors. Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 10th International Conference, ICCHP 2006, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4061. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brown KA, Simpson ER. Therapy Aimed at Breaking the Linkage Between Obesity and Breast Cancer. In: Simpson ER, editor. Obesity and Breast Cancer: The Role of Dysregulated Estrogen Metabolism, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 37–42.

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 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Failed Star Found In Our Solar Neighborhood By Citizen Scientists. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/failed-star-found-in-our-solar-neighborhood-by-citizen-scientists/ (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. Railroad Safety: FRA’s Staffing Model Cannot Estimate Inspectors Needed for Safety Mission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Blackwell PK. Timbre Fantasy: An Analysis on Coloristic Choices in John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Cowen T. The Technological Fix to Inequality. New York Times 2014:BU7.

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	Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
Abbreviation	Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1007-5704
Scope	Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Numerical Analysis