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]

Galizia, C. G., 2007, “Neuroscience. Brainwashing, Honeybee Style,” Science, 317(5836), pp. 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Seitz, A. R., and Watanabe, T., 2003, “Psychophysics: Is Subliminal Learning Really Passive?,” Nature, 422(6927), p. 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fried, S. D., Bagchi, S., and Boxer, S. G., 2014, “Extreme Electric Fields Power Catalysis in the Active Site of Ketosteroid Isomerase,” Science, 346(6216), pp. 1510–1514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rossi, A., Kapahi, P., Natoli, G., Takahashi, T., Chen, Y., Karin, M., and Santoro, M. G., 2000, “Anti-Inflammatory Cyclopentenone Prostaglandins Are Direct Inhibitors of IkappaB Kinase,” Nature, 403(6765), pp. 103–108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Venkataraman, K., 2015, Design of Jigs, Fixtures and Press Tools, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Jørgensen, U., and Brodersen, S., eds., 2016, Engineering Professionalism: Engineering Practices in Work and Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Alkan, B. B., and Atakan, C., 2014, “Comparison of Principal Component Analysis Biplots Based on Different Robust Covariance Matrix Estimates,” Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012, S. Banerjee, and Ş.Ş. Erçetin, eds., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–34.

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]

Taub, B., 2016, “Chimps Feel Decidedly “Meh’ Towards Others,” 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, 2001, Department of Education: Key Aspects of the Federal Direct Loan Program’s Cost Estimates, GAO-01-197, 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]

Yamada, M., 2008, “The Role of the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 (TIR2) Gene in Auxin Synthesis in Arabidopsis,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University.

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, “Induct Steinbrenner? Let’s Think About This,” New York Times, p. B15.

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