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

Diamond, J.: Archaeology. Easter Island revisited. Science. 317, 1692–1694 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Carr, M.H., Garvin, J.: Mars exploration. Nature. 412, 250–253 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Adini, Y., Sagi, D., Tsodyks, M.: Context-enabled learning in the human visual system. Nature. 415, 790–793 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cooper, V.R., Seo, S.S.A., Lee, S., Kim, J.S., Choi, W.S., Okamoto, S., Lee, H.N.: Transparent conducting oxides: a δ-doped superlattice approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 6021 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy, G., Levin, B.: The Biostatistics of Aging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Frost, S.C., McKenna, R. eds: Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Maji, P., Paul, S.: f-Information Measures for Selection of Discriminative Genes from Microarray Data. In: Paul, S. (ed.) Scalable Pattern Recognition Algorithms: Applications in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. pp. 131–153. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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

Andrew, E.: Fly Over Pluto With This Animated Video From NASA’s New Horizons

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: Rehabilitation Services: Administration of Grants to Human Services Training and Research Council. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1986)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moreno, S.: Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children, (2009)

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

Schwartz, J.: Exxon Misled the Public on the Risks of Climate Change, a Study Says, (2017)

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

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