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]

M. Dunne, Applied physics. Laser-driven particle accelerators, Science 312 (2006) 374–376.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.H. Erwin, D.C. Krakauer, Evolution. Insights into innovation, Science 304 (2004) 1117–1119.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Vogelstein, B. Alberts, K. Shine, Genetics. Please don’t call it cloning!, Science 295 (2002) 1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Joly, L. Pellejà, S. Narbey, F. Oswald, J. Chiron, J.N. Clifford, E. Palomares, R. Demadrille, A robust organic dye for dye sensitized solar cells based on iodine/iodide electrolytes combining high efficiency and outstanding stability, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4033.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.D. George, T.G. Donley, P.M. Preshaw, Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C. Williams, ed., Social Work and the City: Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Damle, J.A. Maykel, Perioperative Considerations, in: H. Ross, S. Lee, B.J. Champagne, A. Pigazzi, D.E. Rivadeneira (Eds.), Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 45–55.

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, Incredible Photos Of Supersonic Shock Waves, IFLScience (2015).

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, Education and Care: Early Childhood Programs and Services for Low-Income Families, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.L. Schellenberg, Divorced women, poverty, and the Social Security Act: A policy analysis, 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]

J. Herrman, Counter Offensive, New York Times (2017) MM11.

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