How to format your references using the Annual Reviews in Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Reviews in Control. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

East, R. (2013). Microbiome: Soil science comes to life. Nature, 501(7468), S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pickard, C. J., & Needs, R. J. (2014). High-pressure physics: Piling on the pressure. Nature, 511(7509), 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foth, C., Tischlinger, H., & Rauhut, O. W. M. (2014). New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers. Nature, 511(7507), 79–82.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Takeuchi, K., Tokunaga, Y., Imai, M., Takahashi, H., & Shimada, I. (2014). Dynamic multidrug recognition by multidrug transcriptional repressor LmrR. Scientific Reports, 4, 6922.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keegan, K. D. (2008). Biotechnology Valuation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Rodríguez, H. (2007). Handbook of Disaster Research (E. L. Quarantelli & R. R. Dynes, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bettinson, V. (2016). Surviving Times of Austerity: Preserving the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Provision. In S. Hilder & V. Bettinson (Eds.), Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention (pp. 81–103). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Annual Reviews in Control.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 4). How To Argue With Anti-Vaxxers, According To Science. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-method-proves-effective-countering-anti-vaccination-attitudes/

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. (1979). Need for More Effective Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education (FGMSD-79-44). 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

Miller, C. K. (2006). Incidence and Characterization of Oral Motor, Pharyngeal, and Cervical Esophageal Swallowing Dysfunction in Pediatric Patients with Chiari 1 Malformation [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, August 15). ‘Lesser God’ Is Headed For a Broadway Revival. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (East, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (East, 2013; Pickard & Needs, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pickard & Needs, 2014)
Three authors: (Foth et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Takeuchi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Reviews in Control
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Control
ISSN (print)	1367-5788
Scope	Software Control and Systems Engineering