How to format your references using the Nonlinear Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Analysis. 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]

J. Diamond, Social science. The benefits of multilingualism, Science 330 (2010) 332–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Enyeart, A.D. Ellington, Synthetic biology: a yeast for all reasons, Nature 477 (2011) 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Suma, Y. Sumiyoshi, Y. Endo, The rotational spectrum of the water-hydroperoxy radical (H2O-HO2) complex, Science 311 (2006) 1278–1281.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. He, X. He, V.P. Dave, Y. Zhang, X. Hua, E. Nicolas, W. Xu, B.A. Roe, D.J. Kappes, The zinc finger transcription factor Th-POK regulates CD4 versus CD8 T-cell lineage commitment, Nature 433 (2005) 826–833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Park, G. Guille-Escuret, Sociobiology vs Socioecology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

U.H. Rao, The InfoSec Handbook: An Introduction to Information Security, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kreuzer, L. Robbiano, Zero-Dimensional Affine Algebras, in: L. Robbiano (Ed.), Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 131–184.

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 Nonlinear Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Information Flows In Opposite Directions During Imagination And Reality, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/information-flows-opposite-directions-during-imagination-and-reality/ (accessed October 30, 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, What Is the Role of Federal Assistance for Vocational Education?, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Roth, Depositional Environment of the Carbonate Cap Rock at the Pine Prairie Field, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana: Implications of Salt Diapirism on Cook Mountain Reservoir Genesis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

M. Wilson, Trump Returns Home After 3 Months Away To Stay for 4 Hours, New York Times (2017) A22.

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	Nonlinear Analysis
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Anal. Theory Methods Appl.
ISSN (print)	0362-546X
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics