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]

Fields S 2007 Molecular biology. Site-seeing by sequencing Science 316 1441–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jakse N and Pasturel A 2013 Liquid Aluminum: atomic diffusion and viscosity from ab initio molecular dynamics Sci. Rep. 3 3135

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Reichardt B W, Unger F and Vazirani U 2013 Classical command of quantum systems Nature 496 456–60

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Oria R, Wiegand T, Escribano J, Elosegui-Artola A, Uriarte J J, Moreno-Pulido C, Platzman I, Delcanale P, Albertazzi L, Navajas D, Trepat X, García-Aznar J M, Cavalcanti-Adam E A and Roca-Cusachs P 2017 Force loading explains spatial sensing of ligands by cells Nature 552 219–24

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hunter D A 2014 A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Link S and Trujillo J C 2016 Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2016 Workshops, AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME, and WM2SP, Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016, Proceedings vol 9975 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wójtowicz D and Tiuryn J 2006 On Genome Evolution with Accumulated Change and Innovation Comparative Genomics: RECOMB 2006 International Workshop, RCG 2006 Montreal, Canada, September 24-26, 2006 Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed G Bourque and N El-Mabrouk (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 39–50

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]

Carpineti A 2016 Google Shows How Earth Has Changed In The Last 33 Years 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 1988 Space Shuttle: NASA’s Major Changes to Flight Hardware (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]

Laird E C 2012 Training social workers to use solution-focused interviewing with Child Protective Services clients: A grant proposal 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]

Vecsey G 2010 Clouds Part Long Enough For a Memorable Ride New York Times SP9

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