How to format your references using the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems citation style

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

S. Deweerdt, Dancing with an escape artist, Nature 466 (2010) S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Echeverri, E.M. Tanaka, Ectoderm to mesoderm lineage switching during axolotl tail regeneration, Science 298 (2002) 1993–1996.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Rankenburg, A.D. Brandon, C.R. Neal, Neodymium isotope evidence for a chondritic composition of the Moon, Science 312 (2006) 1369–1372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Misteli, A. Gunjan, R. Hock, M. Bustin, D.T. Brown, Dynamic binding of histone H1 to chromatin in living cells, Nature 408 (2000) 877–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Millon, S. Grossman, Moderating Severe Personality Disorders, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

C. Kaklamanis, F. Nielson, eds., Trustworthy Global Computing: 4th International Symposium, TGC 2008, Barcelona, Spain, November 3-4, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Kitt, Economic Decision Making: Application of the Theory of Complex Systems, in: S. Banerjee, Ş.Ş. Erçetin, A. Tekin (Eds.), Chaos Theory in Politics, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 51–73.

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: Hybrid Systems.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, David Attenborough Signs Open Letter To End Experiments On Non-Human Primates, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/david-attenborough-signs-open-letter-to-end-experiments-on-nonhuman-primates/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Regulatory Efforts to Ensure Financial Institution Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.C. Hudson, Spreading the dao, managing mastership, and performing salvation: The life and alchemical teachings of Chen Zhixu, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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

[1]

K. Feeney, Classic Fare, Modern Chocolate, New York Times (2009) NJ10.

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: Hybrid Systems
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Anal. Hybrid Syst.
ISSN (print)	1751-570X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Analysis