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

Rogers, C.S.: Confounding factors in coral reef recovery. Science. 289, 391b (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Catterall, W.A., Scott, J.D.: Retrospective. Edwin G. Krebs (1918-2009). Science. 327, 537 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

van Zuilen, M.A., Lepland, A., Arrhenius, G.: Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life. Nature. 418, 627–630 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pethe, K., Alonso, S., Biet, F., Delogu, G., Brennan, M.J., Locht, C., Menozzi, F.D.: The heparin-binding haemagglutinin of M. tuberculosis is required for extrapulmonary dissemination. Nature. 412, 190–194 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, P.B.: Modern Spain. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017)

An edited book

Moritz, E.F., Haake, S. eds: The Engineering of Sport 6: Volume 3: Developments for Innovation. Springer, New York, NY (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Hooft, G. ’T: BLACK HOLES AND THE INFORMATION PARADOX. In: Sidharth, B.G., Honsell, F., and de Angelis, A. (eds.) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium “Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics”, Udine, Italy, 26–29 September 2004. pp. 29–29. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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.: Scientist Steps Closer To Understanding The Enigmatic Noises Of The Northern Lights

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: NASA Aeronautics: Impact of Technology Transfer Activities Is Uncertain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Isaacson, M.J.: The paradox of respect and risk: Six Lakota adolescents speak, (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

Hubbard, B.: Short-Term Cease-Fire in Yemen Appears Likely, (2016)

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