How to format your references using the Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems. 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

Kimble, H.J.: The quantum internet. Nature. 453, 1023–1030 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimmins, S., Sassone-Corsi, P.: Chromatin remodelling and epigenetic features of germ cells. Nature. 434, 583–589 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, M., Dong, W., Wang, A.: Two-dimensional carbon topological insulators superior to graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 3532 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johansson, L., Rytkonen, A., Bergman, P., Albiger, B., Källström, H., Hökfelt, T., Agerberth, B., Cattaneo, R., Jonsson, A.-B.: CD46 in meningococcal disease. Science. 301, 373–375 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh, A.: Web Development with the Mac®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2010)

An edited book

Mityushev, V.V., Ruzhansky, M.V. eds: Current Trends in Analysis and Its Applications: Proceedings of the 9th ISAAC Congress, Kraków 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Droop, M., Flarer, M., Groppe, J., Groppe, S., Linnemann, V., Pinggera, J., Santner, F., Schier, M., Schöpf, F., Staffler, H., Zugal, S.: Translating XPath Queries into SPARQL Queries. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., and Herrero, P. (eds.) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 9–10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

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 Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Chinese Lock Down City Of 30,000 After Man Dies Of Bubonic Plague, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chinese-lock-down-city-30000-after-man-dies-bubonic-plague/

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: Child Support Enforcement: Certification Process for State Information Systems. 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

Nuno, Z.S.: Visible and mid-infrared optical studies of plasmon and phonon resonant nanoparticles using apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy, (2012)

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

Fink, S.: Even Nightmares Are Classified, (2016)

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	Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems
Abbreviation	Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1575-5460
ISSN (online)	1662-3592
Scope	Applied Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics