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]

Scharer K. Geophysics. Changing views of the San Andreas Fault. Science. 2010;327:1089–1090.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Reynolds JD, Freckleton RP. Ecology. Population dynamics: growing to extremes. Science. 2005;309:567–568.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lyko F, Ramsahoye BH, Jaenisch R. DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2000;408:538–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mechsner F, Kerzel D, Knoblich G, et al. Perceptual basis of bimanual coordination. Nature. 2001;414:69–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nagashima Y. Elementary Particle Physics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

English LM. Learning with Adults: A Critical Pedagogical Introduction. Mayo P, editor. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Galatchi L-D, Tudor M. EUROPE AS A SOURCE OF POLLUTION – THE MAIN FACTOR FOR THE EUTROPHICATION OF THE DANUBE DELTA AND BLACK SEA. In: Simeonov L, Chirila E, editors. Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 57–63.

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. Inoculating Against Science Denial [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/inoculating-against-science-denial/.

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. Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010. Report No.: GAO-10-785. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Meijer K. Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2015.

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]

Adkins M. Where Elmo’s People Shop. New York Times. 2015 Jan 11;MB3.

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

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