How to format your references using the Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems. 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

Balter, M.: ARCHAEOLOGY: Paintings in Italian Cave May Be Oldest Yet. Science. 290, 419–421 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Estrada, E., Vargas-Estrada, E.: How peer pressure shapes consensus, leadership, and innovations in social groups. Sci. Rep. 3, 2905 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryugo, D.K., Kretzmer, E.A., Niparko, J.K.: Restoration of auditory nerve synapses in cats by cochlear implants. Science. 310, 1490–1492 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, C.-H., Mandelker, D., Schmidt-Kittler, O., Samuels, Y., Velculescu, V.E., Kinzler, K.W., Vogelstein, B., Gabelli, S.B., Amzel, L.M.: The structure of a human p110alpha/p85alpha complex elucidates the effects of oncogenic PI3Kalpha mutations. Science. 318, 1744–1748 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H., Li, G.: OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006)

An edited book

Shi, Y.: Optimization Based Data Mining: Theory and Applications. Springer, London (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Jackson, E.K., Schulte, W., Balasubramanian, D., Karsai, G.: Reusing Model Transformations While Preserving Properties. In: Rosenblum, D.S. and Taentzer, G. (eds.) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 13th International Conference, FASE 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 44–58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T.: This Device Eats Polluted Air And Spits Out Power, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-device-eats-polluted-air-and-spits-out-power/

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: Higher Education: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Federal Financial Assistance for Homeless and Foster Youth. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Loden, M.R.: The rhetorical elephant in the room: How three political action committees are strategically [re]defining the U.S. Republican Party, (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

Rao, T.: Comfort Food, (2017)

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	Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Abbreviation	Differ. Equ. Dyn. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0971-3514
ISSN (online)	0974-6870
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics