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

Naldini, L.: Medicine. A comeback for gene therapy. Science. 326, 805–806 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mbadugha, C.A., Onakoya, A.O.: The awareness, perceptions and experiences of primary open angle glaucoma patients in Lagos Nigeria. Sci. Rep. 4, 7585 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Grieco, F., van Noordwijk, A.J., Visser, M.E.: Evidence for the effect of learning on timing of reproduction in blue tits. Science. 296, 136–138 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, S., Xie, C., Wang, Q., Liu, Z.: Interactions of CaMKII with dopamine D2 receptors: roles in levodopa-induced dyskinesia in 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned Parkinson’s rats. Sci. Rep. 4, 6811 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geren, R.L.: Applying the Building Code. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Vacareanu, R., Ionescu, C. eds: The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt: Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating 75 Years from November 10, 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Heim, P., Ziegler, J.: Faceted Visual Exploration of Semantic Data. In: Ebert, A., Dix, A., Gershon, N.D., and Pohl, M. (eds.) Human Aspects of Visualization: Second IFIP WG 13.7 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, HCIV (INTERACT) 2009, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 58–75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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.: Trouble Sleeping? Scientists Say Go Camping For The Weekend, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trouble-sleeping-scientists-say-go-camping-for-the-weekend/

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: Telecommunications: Projects and Policies Related to Deploying Broadband in Unserved and Underserved Areas. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2014)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen, A.: Poetry as a Museum, (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

Kelly, C.: It’s Not Billions, But It Can Help Rescue an Artist, (2012)

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