How to format your references using the Journal of Differential Equations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Differential Equations. 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]

P. Kabat, Systems science for policy evaluation, Science 336 (2012) 1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.H. Campbell, H.S.C. O’Neill, Evidence against a chondritic Earth, Nature 483 (2012) 553–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. Forde, J.N. Thompson, B.J.M. Bohannan, Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction, Nature 431 (2004) 841–844.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Cacioppo, C. Frum, E. Asp, R.M. Weiss, J.W. Lewis, J.T. Cacioppo, A quantitative meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of social rejection, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Gasser, E. Heiner, K. Elk, Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

N.T. Nguyen, L. Iliadis, Y. Manolopoulos, B. Trawiński, eds., Computational Collective Intelligence: 8th International Conference, ICCCI 2016, Halkidiki, Greece, September 28-30, 2016. Proceedings, Part II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Mehling, L.F. Cabeza, Design of latent heat storages, in: L.F. Cabeza (Ed.), Heat and Cold Storage with PCM: An up to Date Introduction into Basics and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 137–179.

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 Differential Equations.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Bacteria Found In Poop Is Linked To The Body Fat Surrounding Organs, 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, Small Business Administration: Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring System Is Not Complete, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.R. Poyaoan-Linzaga, The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

J. Kounios, Eureka? Yes, Eureka!, New York Times (2017) SR6.

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 Differential Equations
Abbreviation	J. Differ. Equ.
ISSN (print)	0022-0396
Scope	Analysis