How to format your references using the Nonlinearity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinearity. 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

[1]

Powell K 2004 Back to basics: from industry to academia Nature 430 706–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jimenez R and Haiman Z 2006 Significant primordial star formation at redshifts z approximately 3-4 Nature 440 501–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ni J, Yan Q and Yu Y 2013 How much metagenomic sequencing is enough to achieve a given goal? Sci. Rep. 3 1968

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Yi S, Huang Z, Huang J, Fang M, Liu Y and Zhang S 2014 Novel calcium hexaluminate/spinel-alumina composites with graded microstructures and mechanical properties Sci. Rep. 4 4333

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Anichini G, Carraro F, Geslin P and Guille-Escuret G 2017 Technicity vs Scientificity (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Bock W J, Gannot I and Tanev S 2008 Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goerger S R, Wong E Y, Henderson D L, Sperling B K and Bland W 2011 The Casualty Assistance Readiness Enhancement System: A Case Study in Rapid Prototyping and Design for Flexibility Practical Studies in E-Government: Best Practices from Around the World ed S Assar, I Boughzala and I Boydens (New York, NY: Springer) 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 Nonlinearity.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J 2017 Here Are Gifs Of Crash Test Dummies In An Airplane To Remind You That Things Are Terrible IFLScience

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 2017 Air Ambulance: Data Collection and Transparency Needed to Enhance DOT Oversight (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ray-Dulany W R 2010 Base change for the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of GL2 Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Longman J 2009 For the World’s Best Players, Italy Isn’t the Lure It Once Was New York Times B10

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	Nonlinearity
Abbreviation	Nonlinearity
ISSN (print)	0951-7715
ISSN (online)	1361-6544
Scope	Applied Mathematics Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy Statistical and Nonlinear Physics