The mission of the Journal of Nonlinear Science is to publish papers that augment the fundamental ways we describe, model, and predict nonlinear phenomena. It features papers that make an original contribution to at least one technical area and illuminate issues beyond that area's boundaries.Papers can be oriented toward theory, experimentation, algorithms, numerical simulations, or applications as long as the work is creative and sound. In turn, papers oriented toward experimentation, numerical simulations, or applications must not simply report results without an indication of what a theoretical explanation might be.In addition, because ours is a multidisciplinary subject, at minimum the introduction to the paper should be readable to a broad range of scientists and not only to specialists in the subject area.

《非線性科學(xué)雜志》的使命是發(fā)表論文，擴(kuò)充我們描述、建模和預(yù)測(cè)非線性現(xiàn)象的基本方法。它以至少對(duì)一個(gè)技術(shù)領(lǐng)域做出原創(chuàng)貢獻(xiàn)的論文為特色，闡明了該領(lǐng)域之外的問(wèn)題。論文可以面向理論，實(shí)驗(yàn)，算法，數(shù)值模擬，或應(yīng)用，只要工作是創(chuàng)造性的和健全的。反過(guò)來(lái)，以實(shí)驗(yàn)、數(shù)值模擬或應(yīng)用為導(dǎo)向的論文，在沒(méi)有說(shuō)明理論解釋的情況下，不能簡(jiǎn)單地報(bào)告結(jié)果。此外，由于我們的論文是一門多學(xué)科的學(xué)科，因此，對(duì)論文的介紹至少應(yīng)該讓廣泛的科學(xué)家能夠閱讀，而不僅僅是該學(xué)科領(lǐng)域的專家。