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

Bates, G. P. (2006). BIOMEDICINE: One Misfolded Protein Allows Others to Sneak By. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5766), 1385–1386.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe, R., & Noji, H. (2014). Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4962.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann, C., Myhr, K. L., & Wong, R. O. L. (2002). Transmitter-evoked local calcium release stabilizes developing dendrites. Nature, 418(6894), 177–181.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Stedman, H. H., Kozyak, B. W., Nelson, A., Thesier, D. M., Su, L. T., Low, D. W., Bridges, C. R., Shrager, J. B., Minugh-Purvis, N., & Mitchell, M. A. (2004). Myosin gene mutation correlates with anatomical changes in the human lineage. Nature, 428(6981), 415–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratzliff, A., Unutzer, J., Katon, W., & Stephens, K. A. (2015). Integrated Care. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Turner, R. K., & Schaafsma, M. (Eds.). (2015). Coastal Zones Ecosystem Services: From Science to Values and Decision Making (Vol. 9). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramón-Vigo, R., Pérez-Higueras, N., Caballero, F., & Merino, L. (2016). A Framework for Modelling Local Human-Robot Interactions Based on Unsupervised Learning. In A. Agah, J.-J. Cabibihan, A. M. Howard, M. A. Salichs, & H. He (Eds.), Social Robotics: 8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Kansas City, MO, USA, November 1-3, 2016 Proceedings (pp. 32–41). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2014, December 23). Monkey Appears To Resuscitate Dying Friend. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/did-monkey-really-resuscitate-his-friend/

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. (1976). Recent Development in Science and Technology: Progress and Concerns (No. 094655). 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

Policarpio, A. M. (2014). Interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, typically developing siblings, and parents: A systematic review of the literature [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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, December 5). Court Reviews Race as Factor In School Plans. 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 (Bates, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bates, 2006; Watanabe & Noji, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Watanabe & Noji, 2014)
Three authors: (Lohmann et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Stedman et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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