How to format your references using the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Mattson, M. P., 2004, “Pathways towards and Away from Alzheimer’s Disease,” Nature, 430(7000), pp. 631–639.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pastinen, T., and Hudson, T. J., 2004, “Cis-Acting Regulatory Variation in the Human Genome,” Science, 306(5696), pp. 647–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Costello, C., Gaines, S., and Gerber, L. R., 2012, “Conservation Science: A Market Approach to Saving the Whales,” Nature, 481(7380), pp. 139–140.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lingel, A., Simon, B., Izaurralde, E., and Sattler, M., 2003, “Structure and Nucleic-Acid Binding of the Drosophila Argonaute 2 PAZ Domain,” Nature, 426(6965), pp. 465–469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Higman, B. W., 2011, How Food Made History, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Kapetanios, E., Sugumaran, V., and Spiliopoulou, M., eds., 2008, Natural Language and Information Systems: 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008 London, UK, June 24-27, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Krantz, S. G., and Parks, H. R., 2014, “The Plateau Problem,” A Mathematical Odyssey: Journey from the Real to the Complex, H.R. Parks, ed., Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 111–135.

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 Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., 2016, “Can You Spot What’s Hiding In This Photograph?,” IFLScience.

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, 2012, HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls, GAO-12-580T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lim, T., 2017, “Information-Theoretic Aspects of Signal Analysis and Reconstruction,” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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]

Vecsey, G., 2010, “Nation of Individuals Sees Tennis Identity Fade,” New York Times, p. B13.

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	Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Nonlinear Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1555-1415
ISSN (online)	1555-1423
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Applied Mathematics