How to format your references using the Dynamical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

[1]

Crowther R. Space science. Space junk--protecting space for future generations. Science. 2002;296(5571):1241–1242.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Simpson SJ, Raubenheimer D. Perspective: Tricks of the trade. Nature. 2014;508(7496):S66.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Reece SE, Drew DR, Gardner A. Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites. Nature. 2008;453(7195):609–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhang DY, Turberfield AJ, Yurke B, et al. Engineering entropy-driven reactions and networks catalyzed by DNA. Science. 2007;318(5853):1121–1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kampen TU. Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Steiger H-J. Microsurgical Brain Aneurysms: Illustrated Concepts and Cases. Etminan N, Hänggi D, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hay GJ, Castilla G. Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA): A new name for a new discipline. In: Blaschke T, Lang S, Hay GJ, editors. Object-Based Image Analysis: Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 75–89.

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 Dynamical Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Exactly How Big Is Pluto? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/and-now-see-pluto-little-differently/.

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. Gulf War Illnesses: Federal Research Strategy Needs Reexamination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998. Report No.: T-NSIAD-98-104. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Britigan DH. Health information sources and health literacy levels of Latinos in a midwestern tri -state area [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2009.

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]

Yablonsky L. Mystery House. New York Times. 2012 Jul 15;ST3.

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	Dynamical Systems
Abbreviation	Dyn. Syst. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1468-9367
ISSN (online)	1468-9375
Scope	Computer Science Applications General Mathematics