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

Becker, T.: Geophysics. Fine-scale modeling of global plate tectonics. Science. 329, 1020–1021 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhart, B.J., Bartel, D.P.: Small RNAs correspond to centromere heterochromatic repeats. Science. 297, 1831 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos, N.C., Benz, W., Mayor, M.: Extrasolar planets: constraints for planet formation models. Science. 310, 251–255 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujishiro, T., Kawasaki, H., Aihara, M., Saeki, T., Ymagishi, R., Atarashi, T., Mayama, C., Araie, M.: Establishment of an experimental ferret ocular hypertension model for the analysis of central visual pathway damage. Sci. Rep. 4, 6501 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, D., Balog, E.: Advanced Technical Analysis of ETFs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Yamamura, N., Fujita, N., Maekawa, A. eds: The Mongolian Ecosystem Network: Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Areqi, S., Hudaib, A., Obeid, N.: Improving Availability in Distributed Component-Based Systems via Replication. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., and Jung, J.J. (eds.) New Challenges for Intelligent Information and Database Systems. pp. 43–52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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

Davis, J.: Tallest Tree In The Tropics Found In The Remote Malaysian Rainforest

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: National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Planned Use of Information Technology for the Space Station. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1987)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pitron, J.E.: The influence of exemplary followership on organizational performance: A phenomenological approach, (2008)

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

Vecsey, G.: Of Horns and Whines And the Humble Earplug, (2010)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Becker 2010; Reinhart and Bartel 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reinhart and Bartel 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fujishiro et al. 2014)

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