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]

Sandholm, T., 2015, “Computer Science. Solving Imperfect-Information Games,” Science, 347(6218), pp. 122–123.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Araújo, M. B., and Rahbek, C., 2006, “Ecology. How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?,” Science, 313(5792), pp. 1396–1397.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Allard, P., Burton, M., and Muré, F., 2005, “Spectroscopic Evidence for a Lava Fountain Driven by Previously Accumulated Magmatic Gas,” Nature, 433(7024), pp. 407–410.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

van Dam, J. A., Abdul Aziz, H., Alvarez Sierra, M. A., Hilgen, F. J., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Lourens, L. J., Mein, P., van der Meulen, A. J., and Pelaez-Campomanes, P., 2006, “Long-Period Astronomical Forcing of Mammal Turnover,” Nature, 443(7112), pp. 687–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fencott, C., Lockyer, M., Clay, J., and Massey, P., 2012, Game Invaders, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Grothaus, M., 2011, Taking Your IPhone to the Max, IOS 5 Edition, Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schrammel, P., Kroening, D., Brain, M., Martins, R., Teige, T., and Bienmüller, T., 2015, “Successful Use of Incremental BMC in the Automotive Industry,” Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: 20th International Workshop, FMICS 2015 Oslo, Norway, June 22-23, 2015 Proceedings, M. Núñez, and M. Güdemann, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 62–77.

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]

Andrew, D., 2017, “Drugs From Bugs: The Next Blockbuster Medicine Could Be Lurking Inside An Insect,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drugs-from-bugs-the-next-blockbuster-medicine-could-be-lurking-inside-an-insect/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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, 1992, Aviation Safety: Progress on FAA Safety Indicators Program Slow and Challenges Remain, IMTEC-92-57, 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]

Mace, J. Y., 2014, “Rupturing the ‘Reality’ of Reality TV: Contemporary Video Artists Examining the Discursive Effects of the Reality TV Phenomenon,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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]

Crow, K., 2000, “Parents Say Stable’s New Site Means Dust and Distraction for Children,” New York Times, p. 146.

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

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