How to format your references using the Nonlinearity citation style

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

Eisenberg R S 2003 Science and the law. Patent swords and shields Science 299 1018–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Christensen C H and Nørskov J K 2010 Chemistry. Green gold catalysis Science 327 278–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Smolin J A, Smith G and Vargo A 2013 Oversimplifying quantum factoring Nature 499 163–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Ostapcuk V, Mohn F, Carl S H, Basters A, Hess D, Iesmantavicius V, Lampersberger L, Flemr M, Pandey A, Thomä N H, Betschinger J and Bühler M 2018 Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein recruits HP1 and CHD4 to control lineage-specifying genes Nature 557 739–43

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lalanne C 2014 Specification Development (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Dollard M F, Shimazu A, Bin Nordin R, Brough P and Tuckey M R 2014 Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Siva Raja P M and Baburaj E 2013 Edge Based LSBMR Scheme for Hiding Secret Messages with Genetic Algorithms Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012): Volume 1 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ed M S and S S Kumar (New Delhi: Springer India) pp 37–47

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 Nonlinearity.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Video shows Earth’s seasons as seen from space IFLScience

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 2009 Telecommunications: Surveys of Consumers and of State Utility Commissions about Wireless Phone Service (GAO-10-35SP, November 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-10-34 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Paulone S 2013 Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures Doctoral dissertation (Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University)

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]

Pols M 2015 Down East Downers New York Times BR7

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	Nonlinearity
Abbreviation	Nonlinearity
ISSN (print)	0951-7715
ISSN (online)	1361-6544
Scope	Applied Mathematics Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy Statistical and Nonlinear Physics