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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Nadeem M. Unconditionally secure commitment in position-based quantum cryptography. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6774.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bose SK, Marder TB. ORGANIC CATALYSIS. A leap ahead for activating C-H bonds. Science. 2015;349(6247):473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kageyama A, Miyagoshi T, Sato T. Formation of current coils in geodynamo simulations. Nature. 2008;454(7208):1106–1109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Norell M, Ji Q, Gao K, et al. Palaeontology: “modern” feathers on a non-avian dinosaur. Nature. 2002;416(6876):36–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rodda HJE, Little MA. Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Ware GW, Whitacre DM, Gunther FA, editors. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Leu G, Namatame A. Evolving Failure Resilience in Scale-Free Networks. In: Gen M, Green D, Katai O, et al., editors. Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 49–59.

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. Mid-Sized Planetary Body in Kuiper Belt Could Float In Water [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mid-sized-planetary-body-kuiper-belt-could-float-water/.

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. Higher Education: Multiple Higher Education Tax Incentives Create Opportunities for Taxpayers to Make Costly Mistakes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008. Report No.: GAO-08-717T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Haigh CV. More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

[1]

Nordland R, Kanter J. Turkey and E.U. Near Breaking Point in Talks on Membership. New York Times. 2016 Nov 23;A4.

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