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]

Bruno J F 2014 Ecology. How do coral reefs recover? Science 345 879–80

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cox E and Bonner J 2001 Ecology. The advantages of togetherness Science 292 448–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yekta S, Shih I-H and Bartel D P 2004 MicroRNA-directed cleavage of HOXB8 mRNA Science 304 594–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Waite J H Jr, Perryman R S, Perry M E, Miller K E, Bell J, Cravens T E, Glein C R, Grimes J, Hedman M, Cuzzi J, Brockwell T, Teolis B, Moore L, Mitchell D G, Persoon A, Kurth W S, Wahlund J-E, Morooka M, Hadid L Z, Chocron S, Walker J, Nagy A, Yelle R, Ledvina S, Johnson R, Tseng W, Tucker O J and Ip W-H 2018 Chemical interactions between Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings Science 362

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Levin R 2011 Implementing the Wealth Management Index (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Shaw R 2014 Disaster Recovery: Used or Misused Development Opportunity (Tokyo: Springer Japan)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Graf J, Hecker M, Mohr M and Snelting G 2016 Tool Demonstration: JOANA Principles of Security and Trust: 5th International Conference, POST 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2–8, 2016, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed F Piessens and L Viganò (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 89–93

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]

Andrew E 2014 Algae Virus Can Infect Humans And Slow Brain Activity 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 1969 Administration and Control of Procurement and Utilization of Automatic Data Processing (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]

Nersessian N 2012 Modified gravity with scale invariance and implications Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kelly M 1992 THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Seeking Better Image, Perot Shifts Campaign New York Times A12

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