How to format your references using the Chaos citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chaos. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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 V. Gewin, “With the United States on high alert over the possibility of bioterror attacks, epidemiologists are in huge demand,” Nature 423(6941), 784–785 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ J. Gaillardet, and A. Galy, “Atmospheric science. Himalaya--carbon sink or source?,” Science 320(5884), 1727–1728 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ T. Finkel, C.-X. Deng, and R. Mostoslavsky, “Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins,” Nature 460(7255), 587–591 (2009).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ A. McMahon, W. Supatto, S.E. Fraser, and A. Stathopoulos, “Dynamic analyses of Drosophila gastrulation provide insights into collective cell migration,” Science 322(5907), 1546–1550 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ I. Buchstaller, Quotatives (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Oxford, UK, 2013).

An edited book

¹ T. Komorowski, Fluctuations in Markov Processes: Time Symmetry and Martingale Approximation (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ A.M. Lipton, and C.D. Marshall, “Making the Most of the Doctor’s Visit,” in The Common Sense Guide to Dementia For Clinicians and Caregivers, edited by C.D. Marshall, (Springer, New York, NY, 2013), pp. 43–55.

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 Chaos.

Blog post

¹ E. Andrew, “Pluto’s Moons Behave Like Spinning Tops,” IFLScience, (2015).

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, Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ M.L. Brown, Examining Leadership and the Laminated Glass Ceiling: Gender and Leadership Traits, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2010.

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 L. Sugin, “An Uncharitable Foundation,” New York Times, A27 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Chaos
Abbreviation	Chaos
ISSN (print)	1054-1500
ISSN (online)	1089-7682
Scope	Applied Mathematics Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy Statistical and Nonlinear Physics