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

Wilczek, F. (2004). From “not wrong” to (maybe right). Nature, 428(6980), 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ischenko, A. A., & Saparbaev, M. K. (2002). Alternative nucleotide incision repair pathway for oxidative DNA damage. Nature, 415(6868), 183–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prospero, J. M., Bullard, J. E., & Hodgkins, R. (2012). High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6072), 1078–1082.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hammerl, G., Schmehl, A., Schulz, R. R., Goetz, B., Bielefeldt, H., Schneider, C. W., Hilgenkamp, H., & Mannhart, J. (2000). Enhanced supercurrent density in polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O(7-delta) at 77 K from calcium doping of grain boundaries. Nature, 407(6801), 162–164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. (2006). Spacecraft Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ollero, A., & Maza, I. (Eds.). (2007). Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Vol. 37). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cerejeiras, P., Chen, Q., Gomes, N., & Hartmann, S. (2016). Compressed Sensing with Nonlinear Fourier Atoms. In S. Bernstein, U. Kähler, I. Sabadini, & F. Sommen (Eds.), Modern Trends in Hypercomplex Analysis (pp. 47–77). 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 Control Engineering Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 30). Are You Getting Enough Vitamin B1 To Help Fend Off Alzheimer’s? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-you-getting-enough-vitamin-b1-to-help-fend-off-alzheimers/

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. (1977). Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs (CED-77-60). 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

Schroeder, M. (2017). Investigating the Learnability of a Rogue Grammar: Null Subject Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2009, October 13). Putin’s Party Wins in Regional Elections Across Russia. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ischenko & Saparbaev, 2002; Wilczek, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ischenko & Saparbaev, 2002)
Three authors: (Prospero et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Hammerl et al., 2000)

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