How to format your references using the Control Engineering Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Control Engineering Practice. 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

Melino, G. (2001). The Sirens’ song. Nature, 412(6842), 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffmann, D. E., & Rothenberg, K. H. (2005). Science and law. When should judges admit or compel genetic tests? Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 241–242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prytkova, T. R., Kurnikov, I. V., & Beratan, D. N. (2007). Coupling coherence distinguishes structure sensitivity in protein electron transfer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5812), 622–625.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ozsoy-Keskinbora, C., Boothroyd, C. B., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., van Aken, P. A., & Koch, C. T. (2014). Hybridization approach to in-line and off-axis (electron) holography for superior resolution and phase sensitivity. Scientific Reports, 4, 7020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eales, L.-J. (2005). Immunology for Life Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bramer, M., & Terziyan, V. (Eds.). (2005). Industrial Applications of Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 1st IFIP WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, August 25–27, 2005, Jyväskylä, Finland (Vol. 188). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Novakovic, B., & Knezevic, I. (2011). Quantum Master Equations in Electronic Transport. In D. Vasileska & S. M. Goodnick (Eds.), Nano-Electronic Devices: Semiclassical and Quantum Transport Modeling (pp. 249–287). Springer.

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 Control Engineering Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 8). Clues About Black Hole Formation Found in Massive Stellar Explosion. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2003). Maritime Administration: Weaknesses Identified in Management of the Title XI Loan Guarantee Program (GAO-03-728T). 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

Smith, T. (2012). Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Baker, P., & Vogel, K. P. (2017, September 18). Lawyers Clash Over Strategy By West Wing. 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 (Melino, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hoffmann & Rothenberg, 2005; Melino, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hoffmann & Rothenberg, 2005)
Three authors: (Prytkova et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Ozsoy-Keskinbora et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Control Engineering Practice
Abbreviation	Control Eng. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0967-0661
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics