How to format your references using the IEEE Control Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Control Systems. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

M. D. Rausher, “Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6839, pp. 857–864, Jun. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. F. Rella and M. Uchida, “A Southern Ocean trigger for Northwest Pacific ventilation during the Holocene?,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4046, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Gu, W. Lee, and J. Shen, “Site-2 protease responds to oxidative stress and regulates oxidative injury in mammalian cells,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6268, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. A. Hernández et al., “Carbon dioxide degassing by advective flow from Usu volcano, Japan,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5514, pp. 83–86, Apr. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Russell, Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

H. Carreiras and G. Kümmel, Eds., Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Schein, S. Sajja, and H. U. Elben, “Abdominal Imaging,” in Schein’s Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons, M. Schein, P. Rogers, and A. Assalia, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 33–55.

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 IEEE Control Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Dopamine Makes Us Less Tolerant Of Inequality,” 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PSAD-77-103, May 1977.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Llerena, “The social behaviors and emotional characteristics of individuals elevated on social anhedonia,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2010.

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

[1]

M. W. Walsh and N. D. Schwartz, “Estimate of Economic Losses Now Up to $50 Billion,” New York Times, p. B1, Nov. 02, 2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Control Systems
ISSN (print)	1066-033X
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Modelling and Simulation