How to format your references using the Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications citation style

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

J.M. Isner, Myocardial gene therapy, Nature 415 (2002) 234–239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, A minimum column density of 1 g cm(-2) for massive star formation, Nature 451 (2008) 1082–1084.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Nilius, T.M. Wallis, W. Ho, Development of one-dimensional band structure in artificial gold chains, Science 297 (2002) 1853–1856.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. Wang, Y. Yang, H. Jiang, C.T. Liu, H.H. Ruan, J. Lu, Superior tensile ductility in bulk metallic glass with gradient amorphous structure, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.I. Papadimitriou, P.A. Tsimoulas, M.S. Obaidat, A.S. Pomportsis, Multiwavelength Optical LANs, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J. Hall, ed., Children’s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Zhou, C. Wen, Decentralized Stabilization of Interconnected Systems, in: C. Wen (Ed.), Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems: Nonsmooth Nonlinearities, Interactions or Time-Variations, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 65–79.

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: Real World Applications.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Black Holes Aren’t As Black As Thought, Says Stephen Hawking In New Theory, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-holes-arent-black-thought-says-stephen-hawking-new-theory/ (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, Student Financial Aid: Schools’ Experiences Using the National Student Loan Data System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.A. Stewart, Principals’ post-observation feedback and its influence on teacher professional growth at two Southern California Catholic high schools, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2013.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Concert Settings Fit for a Romanov, New York Times (2001) 53.

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: Real World Applications
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl.
ISSN (print)	1468-1218
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance General Engineering Analysis Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics General Medicine