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]

Lewis J. From signals to patterns: space, time, and mathematics in developmental biology. Science. 2008;322:399–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Luo Z-X, Wible JR. A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification. Science. 2005;308:103–107.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shubin NH, Daeschler EB, Jenkins FA Jr. The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. Nature. 2006;440:764–771.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Joint I, Tait K, Callow ME, et al. Cell-to-cell communication across the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary. Science. 2002;298:1207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Niven PR. Balanced Scorecard Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Brar SK, Dhillon GS, Soccol CR, editors. Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schmüser P, Dohlus M, Rossbach J, et al. One-Dimensional Theory of the High-Gain FEL. In: Dohlus M, Rossbach J, Behrens C, editors. Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime: Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 39–61.

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]

Andrews R. Violent Volcanic Eruption In Costa Rica Smothers Capital City In Ash. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal Aviation Administration: An Analysis of the Financial Viability of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006. Report No.: GAO-06-562T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Black DD. Franz Liszt’s “Via Crucis”: A summation of the composer’s styles and beliefs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2014.

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]

Grynbaum MM, Ember S. Who Will Inherit the Throne at Vanity Fair? New York Times. 2017 Sep 15;B3.

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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