How to format your references using the Journal of Nonlinear Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nonlinear Science. 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

Marris, E.: Carbon copies. Nature. 445, 584–585 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Corfe, I.J., Butler, R.J.: Comment on “A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features.” Science. 313, 1238; author reply 1238 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Knigge, C., Leigh, N., Sills, A.: A binary origin for “blue stragglers” in globular clusters. Nature. 457, 288–290 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Obayashi, E., Yoshida, H., Kawai, F., Shibayama, N., Kawaguchi, A., Nagata, K., Tame, J.R.H., Park, S.-Y.: The structural basis for an essential subunit interaction in influenza virus RNA polymerase. Nature. 454, 1127–1131 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann, K.: System Integration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2005)

An edited book

Mortveit, H.S.: An Introduction to Sequential Dynamical Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Jaggar, A.M.: “Saving Amina”: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue. In: Follesdal, A. and Pogge, T. (eds.) Real World Justice: Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions. pp. 37–63. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Nonlinear Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Mount Etna’s Rivers Of Lava Are Incredibly Hypnotic, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-etnas-rivers-lava-incredibly-hypnotic/

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

Government Accountability Office: International Aviation: Better Data on Code-Sharing Needed by DOT for Monitoring and Decisionmaking. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moua, P.: Differential functions of the kinesin-1 tail in Drosophila melanogaster transport processes, (2009)

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

Feeney, K.: Only Soy Died for These Dishes, (2010)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Marris 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Corfe and Butler 2006; Marris 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Corfe and Butler 2006)
Three or more authors: (Obayashi et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nonlinear Science
Abbreviation	J. Nonlinear Sci.
ISSN (print)	0938-8974
ISSN (online)	1432-1467
Scope	General Engineering Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation