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

Fairchild, A. L. (2006). Public health. Diabetes and disease surveillance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5784), 175–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferraro, P. J., & Kiss, A. (2002). Ecology. Direct payments to conserve biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1718–1719.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster, C. P., Pound, G. E., & Cox, S. J. (2000). The ecological cost of sex. Nature, 404(6775), 281–285.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Olguin, G., Yacou, C., Smart, S., & da Costa, J. C. D. (2013). Tailoring the oxidation state of cobalt through halide functionality in sol-gel silica. Scientific Reports, 3, 2449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minei, I., & Lucek, J. (2006). MPLS-Enabled Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wu, G. Y. (Ed.). (2016). Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics (2nd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Baba, S., & Ma, Q. (2016). Analyzing Relationships of Listed Companies with Stock Prices and News Articles. In S. Hartmann & H. Ma (Eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications: 27th International Conference, DEXA 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 27–34). 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

Hale, T. (2016, August 30). Wolves Are Breeding In Austria For First Time Since 1882. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolves-are-breeding-in-austria-for-first-time-since-1882/

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). Release of Carson City Silver Dollar Bidders List (LCD-79-106). 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

Richardson, R. S. (2015). A phenomenological hermeneutic study of radiology [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

Tommasini, A. (2016, November 16). The Puppets Pull the Heartstrings in This Tale. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fairchild, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fairchild, 2006; Ferraro & Kiss, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ferraro & Kiss, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Olguin et al., 2013)

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