How to format your references using the Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications. 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.L. Lewis, How to beat the media in the climate street fight, Nature 468 (2010) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Swinbanks, D. Cyranoski, Taiwan backs experience in quest for biotech success, Nature 407 (2000) 417–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Q.-P. Su, C.-P. Yang, S.-B. Zheng, Fast and simple scheme for generating NOON states of photons in circuit QED, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3898.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.P.S. Gulick, A.E. Shevenell, A. Montelli, R. Fernandez, C. Smith, S. Warny, S.M. Bohaty, C. Sjunneskog, A. Leventer, B. Frederick, D.D. Blankenship, Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Nature 552 (2017) 225–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechni, K. Laackmann, H. Balthaus, O. Braach, W.-D. Friebel, A. Hettler, B. Maidl, M. Meissner, W. Schuck, S. Schwaiger, D. Stephan, M. Thewes, B. Wittke-Schmitt, Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2015, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. C.M. Ehren, ed., Methods and Modalities of Effective School Inspections, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q. Zhang, H. Li, X. Zhang, Cat Scratch Disease, in: H. Li (Ed.), Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015: pp. 63–68.

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: Real World Applications.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, These Are All The Weirdly Specific Things Facebook Knows About You, 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, Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.M. Kaplan, Understanding the Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol on the Central Extended Amygdala in Humans, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

L. Yablonsky, World’s Fastest Canvas, New York Times (2010) ST3.

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: Real World Applications
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl.
ISSN (print)	1468-1218
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance General Engineering Analysis Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics General Medicine