How to format your references using the Nonlinear Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Dynamics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Huron, D.: Science & music: lost in music. Nature. 453, 456–457 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaw, R.J., Cantley, L.C.: Ras, PI(3)K and mTOR signalling controls tumour cell growth. Nature. 441, 424–430 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Cox, D., Meyers, E., Sinha, P.: Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex. Science. 304, 115–117 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsutsui, M., Morikawa, T., Arima, A., Taniguchi, M.: Thermoelectricity in atom-sized junctions at room temperatures. Sci. Rep. 3, 3326 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi, D., Norris, M.: Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2004)

An edited book

Booth, A., Brown, S.L., Landale, N.S., Manning, W.D., McHale, S.M. eds: Early Adulthood in a Family Context. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Luquet, D., Rebolledo, C., Rouan, L., Soulie, J.-C., Dingkuhn, M.: Heuristic Exploration of Theoretical Margins for Improving Adaptation of Rice through Crop-Model Assisted Phenotyping. In: Yin, X. and Struik, P.C. (eds.) Crop Systems Biology: Narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics. pp. 105–127. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Scientists Photograph Rare Teddy Bear-Like Creature For The First Time In Decades, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-photograph-rare-teddy-bear-creature/

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

Government Accountability Office: Customs Service Modernization: ACE Poses Risks and Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pulido, B.B.: Homes as grounding counterspaces: Mexicana undocumented students utilizing mother-daughter pedagogies of resistance to succeed in higher education, (2015)

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

Murphy, M.J.O.: Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times, (2015)

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 Dynamics
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0924-090X
ISSN (online)	1573-269X
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering Applied Mathematics