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]

P. Gong, China needs no foreign help to feed itself, Nature 474 (2011) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.D. Levitt, J.A. List, Economics. Homo economicus evolves, Science 319 (2008) 909–910.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.D. Santos, S.N. Dorogovtsev, J.F.F. Mendes, Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4436.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.I. Suzuki, K. Yamagata, K. Sugimoto, T. Iwamoto, S. Kato, K. Miyazono, Modulation of microRNA processing by p53, Nature 460 (2009) 529–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.R. Upreti, Process Modeling and Simulation for Chemical Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

O. Grumberg, M. Huth, eds., Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 13th International Conference, TACAS 2007, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2007 Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Bott, F. Hamm, Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect, in: B. Hemforth, B. Mertins, C. Fabricius-Hansen (Eds.), Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 83–109.

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, How To Make Edible Water Bottles, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-make-edible-water-bottles/ (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, NASA Designation of Their Ames Facility to Be Lead Center for Helicopter Research and Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Fulton, Differential effects of nicotine on prospective memory, sustained attention, and working memory, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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.E. Forsberg, A Hudson Tunnel That Goes One Way, New York Times (2010) A33.

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