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]

G.K. Hansson, Medicine. LIGHT hits the liver, Science. 316 (2007) 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, Simple rules yield complex food webs, Nature. 404 (2000) 180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Pellizzoni, J. Yong, G. Dreyfuss, Essential role for the SMN complex in the specificity of snRNP assembly, Science. 298 (2002) 1775–1779.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Song, X. Cai, M.W.-Y. Tu, X. Zhang, B. Huang, N.P. Wilson, K.L. Seyler, L. Zhu, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M.A. McGuire, D.H. Cobden, D. Xiao, W. Yao, X. Xu, Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures, Science. 360 (2018) 1214–1218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z. He, Wavelet Analysis and Transient Signal Processing Applications for Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. Salomon, Handbook of Data Compression, Springer, London, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

U. Kumar, A. Roland, S.A. Burbidge, Understanding and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease, in: S.I.S. Rattan, M. Kassem (Eds.), Prevention and Treatment of Age-Related Diseases, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006: pp. 49–70.

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, Here’s What Earth Would Look Like If Fossil Fuel Energy, Nuclear And Renewable Power Sources Were All Turned Off One By One, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Space Shuttle Facility Program: More Definitive Cost Information Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Grasis, Controlling T lymphocyte activation with a molecular rheostat, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

B. Brantley, A Den of Family Dysfunction, New York Times. (2017) C6.

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