How to format your references using the Nonlinear Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Analysis. 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]

T. Crouch, Harold Melvin Agnew (1921-2013), Nature 503 (2013) 40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.E. Brodsky, L.J. Lajoie, Anthropogenic seismicity rates and operational parameters at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, Science 341 (2013) 543–546.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.J. Rulifson, S.K. Kim, R. Nusse, Ablation of insulin-producing neurons in flies: growth and diabetic phenotypes, Science 296 (2002) 1118–1120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Kovalchuk, O. Kovalchuk, V. Kalck, V. Boyko, J. Filkowski, M. Heinlein, B. Hohn, Pathogen-induced systemic plant signal triggers DNA rearrangements, Nature 423 (2003) 760–762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Le Menn, Instrumentation and Metrology in Oceanography, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J. Krogstie, A.L. Opdahl, S. Brinkkemper, eds., Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Batura, T. Evas, Information Society Goes East: ICT Policy in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Cooperation Framework, in: T. Kerikmäe, A. Chochia (Eds.), Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 39–57.

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 Nonlinear Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, What Is This Bizarre Slimy Green Creature?, 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, Federal Research: Effectiveness of Small Business Innovation Research Program Procedures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Greene, Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2017.

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]

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, Arts, Briefly; Russia to Sell a Landmark Studio, New York Times (2005) E2.

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	Nonlinear Analysis
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Anal. Theory Methods Appl.
ISSN (print)	0362-546X
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics