How to format your references using the Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems. 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

Carmody, J.: Celebrating science. Nature. 412, 383 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Deming, D., Seager, S.: Light and shadow from distant worlds. Nature. 462, 301–306 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rapp, R.P., Shimizu, N., Norman, M.D.: Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature. 425, 605–609 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kloer, D.P., Ruch, S., Al-Babili, S., Beyer, P., Schulz, G.E.: The structure of a retinal-forming carotenoid oxygenase. Science. 308, 267–269 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem, S.: The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Gentili, G.: The Median Nerve: Motor Conduction Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Ufuktepe, Ü., Yılmaz, B.: Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis with Petri Nets. In: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., and Apduhan, B.O. (eds.) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV. pp. 53–61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T.: The Sistine Chapel Enters The Digital Age With Huge Imaging Project, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-sistine-chapel-enters-the-digital-age-with-huge-imaging-project/

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: Contract Award of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to the Institute for Law and Social Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1975)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wester, A.M.: Readers’ trust, socio-demographic, and acuity influences in citizen journalism credibility for disrupted online newspapers, (2013)

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

Cowen, T.: It’s Not the Inequality; It’s the Immobility, (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	Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems
Abbreviation	Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1575-5460
ISSN (online)	1662-3592
Scope	Applied Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics