For the rotating-frame normalization of resonant amplitude forcing, use a rotating phase, . The real must occur inside the factor of ; the printed change of variables omits that on the phase constant. The correctly phased substitution gives
A negative real forcing coefficient can be made positive by changing the forcing phase. Assuming , set
All three terms then have the same coefficient scale, giving
Renaming as gives the requested canonical equation. This rescaling preserves forward time. If , a forward-time normalization instead leaves a positive cubic term, and if a cubic normalization is impossible. If , the unforced Landau amplitude equation must be treated separately. Thus the printed canonical form implicitly concerns saturation in a supercritical bifurcation with nonzero forcing.