How to format your references using the Journal of Nonlinear Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nonlinear Science. 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

Etzioni, O.: Search needs a shake-up. Nature. 476, 25–26 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanguinetti, M.C., Tristani-Firouzi, M.: hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia. Nature. 440, 463–469 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lepper, C., Conway, S.J., Fan, C.-M.: Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature. 460, 627–631 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Uesugi, E., Goto, H., Eguchi, R., Fujiwara, A., Kubozono, Y.: Electric double-layer capacitance between an ionic liquid and few-layer graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 1595 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padova, T.: Adobe® Acrobat® X PDF Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2011)

An edited book

Hayat, M.A. ed: Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 4: Brain Tumors (Part 2). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Lei, Y., Ding, X., Wang, S.: Adaptive Sparse Vector Tracking Via Online Bayesian Learning. In: Zheng, N., Jiang, X., and Lan, X. (eds.) Advances in Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Analysis: International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006 Xi’an, China, August 26-27, 2006 Proceedings. pp. 35–45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Journal of Nonlinear Science.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: The Five Craziest Exoplanets Ever Discovered, https://www.iflscience.com/space/5-worst-exoplanets-live/

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: The NASA Fiscal Year 1985 Budget Requests That Support DOD Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1984)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yamada, T.: Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms, (2008)

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

Bennhold, K., Erlanger, S., Yeginsu, C.: Britain on Edge As Terror Alert Hits Top Level, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Etzioni 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Etzioni 2011; Sanguinetti and Tristani-Firouzi 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sanguinetti and Tristani-Firouzi 2006)
Three or more authors: (Uesugi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nonlinear Science
Abbreviation	J. Nonlinear Sci.
ISSN (print)	0938-8974
ISSN (online)	1432-1467
Scope	General Engineering Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation