How to format your references using the Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Cook-Deegan R. Patent law. Law and science collide over human gene patents. Science 2012;338:745–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Holme R, de Viron O. Characterization and implications of intradecadal variations in length of day. Nature 2013;499:202–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Indjeian VB, Stern BM, Murray AW. The centromeric protein Sgo1 is required to sense lack of tension on mitotic chromosomes. Science 2005;307:130–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Calderaro A, Arcangeletti M-C, Rodighiero I, Buttrini M, Gorrini C, Motta F, et al. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry applied to virus identification. Sci Rep 2014;4:6803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Neave EH. Modern Financial Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Bártolo PJ, editor. Stereolithography: Materials, Processes and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Soltakhanov SK, Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA. The Mixed Problem Of Dynamics. New Class Of Control Problems. In: Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA, editors. Mechanics of non-holonomic systems: A New Class of control systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 125–48.

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 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Before We Build Jurassic World We Need To Study Recent Extinctions. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/we-build-jurassic-world-we-need-study-recent-extinctions/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Today Needed To Prevent Future Disruption of Government Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Thompson K. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

Sorkin AR, de la MERCED MJ, Thomas K. As Amazon Looms, CVS Eyes Aetna For Big Buy. New York Times 2017:B1.

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	Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
Abbreviation	Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1007-5704
Scope	Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Numerical Analysis