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

Nisini, B.: ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Water’s Role in Making Stars. Science. 290, 1513–1514 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schoch, R.R., Sues, H.-D.: A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan. Nature. 523, 584–587 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Strauss, E., Oszkinis, G., Staniszewski, R.: SEPP1 gene variants and abdominal aortic aneurysm: gene association in relation to metabolic risk factors and peripheral arterial disease coexistence. Sci. Rep. 4, 7061 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji, M., Greening, C., Vanwonterghem, I., Carere, C.R., Bay, S.K., Steen, J.A., Montgomery, K., Lines, T., Beardall, J., van Dorst, J., Snape, I., Stott, M.B., Hugenholtz, P., Ferrari, B.C.: Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature. 552, 400–403 (2017)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasher, E., Ronen, T.: The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Smits, A.J.: Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow. Springer, New York, NY (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Kuznyetsov, V.: Problem of Pops Management in Ukraine: the Lack of Interdepartmental Cooperation and Public Involvement. In: Mehmetli, E. and Koumanova, B. (eds.) The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment. pp. 51–64. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008)

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

Andrew, E.: Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking Sign Open Letter In Hopes Of Preventing Robot Uprising, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-and-stephen-hawking-sign-letter-prevent-robot-uprising/

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: Inadequate Monitoring of U.S. Merchant Tanker Fleet Hampers Mobilization Planning. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mullican, C.D.: Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks, (2012)

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

Crow, K.: Students Take On Whooshing Traffic, (2001)

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