How to format your references using the System Dynamics Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for System Dynamics Review (SDR). 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

Oldroyd GED. 2007. Plant science. Nodules and hormones. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5808): 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman MD, Eisenberger NI. 2009. Neuroscience. Pains and pleasures of social life. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323(5916): 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hibbins AP, Evans BR, Sambles JR. 2005. Experimental verification of designer surface plasmons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5722): 670–672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gustafson DE Jr, Stoecker DK, Johnson MD, Van Heukelem WF, Sneider K. 2000. Cryptophyte algae are robbed of their organelles by the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. Nature 405(6790): 1049–1052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pierce DR. 2013. Project Scheduling and Management for Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tombran-Tink J, Barnstable CJ (eds.). 2008. Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Destexhe A, Rudolph-Lilith M. 2012. Models of Synaptic Noise. In Rudolph-Lilith M (ed.) Neuronal Noise. Springer US, Boston, MA, 67–110.

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 System Dynamics Review.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Eating Peanuts Early in Life May Prevent Peanut Allergies. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eating-peanuts-early-life-may-prevent-peanut-allergies/.

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. 1992. Technology Transfer: Barriers Limit Royalty Sharing’s Effectiveness. No. RCED-93-6. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blair GT. 2014. The effects of a league guided sportsmanship program on the behaviors of youth sports athletes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rutenberg J. 2016. News Outlets Wonder Where They Stumbled. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Oldroyd, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Oldroyd, 2007; Lieberman and Eisenberger, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lieberman and Eisenberger, 2009)
Three authors: (Hibbins et al., 2005)
Four or more authors: (Gustafson et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	System Dynamics Review
ISSN (print)	0883-7066
ISSN (online)	1099-1727
Scope