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

Quadir, I. Z. (2012). Education. Entrepreneurship training for the developing world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6075), 1445–1446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costache, M. V., & Valenzuela, S. O. (2010). Experimental spin ratchet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6011), 1645–1648.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stinchcombe, J., Bossi, G., & Griffiths, G. M. (2004). Linking albinism and immunity: the secrets of secretory lysosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 55–59.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lakhani, S. A., Masud, A., Kuida, K., Porter, G. A., Jr, Booth, C. J., Mehal, W. Z., Inayat, I., & Flavell, R. A. (2006). Caspases 3 and 7: key mediators of mitochondrial events of apoptosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 847–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacRoberts. (2014). MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Deakin, M. (2014). The Mass Retrofitting of an Energy Efficient—Low Carbon Zone (F. Campbell, A. Reid, & J. Orsinger, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumpfer, K. L., Magalhães, C., & Kanse, S. A. (2016). Impact of Family Structure, Functioning, Culture, and Family-Based Interventions on Children’s Health. In M. R. Korin (Ed.), Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents (pp. 57–81). Springer US.

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

Hale, T. (2017, March 2). Some Old (And Very Important) Mold Just Sold For $14,617. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-old-and-very-important-mold-just-sold-for-14617/

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). Evaluation and the Research Process (094329). 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

Mardakhanian, A. (2015). Blended CME, Inc. A business plan [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, March 2). Clash of the Gossip Girls. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quadir, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Costache & Valenzuela, 2010; Quadir, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Costache & Valenzuela, 2010)
Three authors: (Stinchcombe et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Lakhani et al., 2006)

About the journal

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