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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

D. Cyranoski, “Malaysia plans ‘red book’ in its attempts to go green,” Nature, vol. 436, no. 7049, p. 313, Jul. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Bucchi and F. Neresini, “Biotechnology. Why are people hostile to biotechnologies?,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5678, p. 1749, Jun. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. A. Saturno, D. Stuart, and B. Beltrán, “Early Maya writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5765, pp. 1281–1283, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.-C. Lee et al., “qiRNA is a new type of small interfering RNA induced by DNA damage,” Nature, vol. 459, no. 7244, pp. 274–277, May 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. H. Jarman, Beyond Basic Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

F. Carpi, Ed., Electromechanically Active Polymers: A Concise Reference. in Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Wang, Z. Ma, and X. Zhang, “The Research on English Learning for PE Majors,” in Education and Educational Technology, Y. Wang, Ed., in Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 23–27.

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]

B. Taub, “Neanderthals May Have Held Fiery Funerals For Their Dead,” 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, “Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-863T, Jul. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. M. Reich, “Adapted physical education teachers’ attitudes towards their students with hidden and visible disabilities,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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]

E. E. Arvedlund and SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting for this article, “After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow’s Full of Foreboding,” New York Times, p. A6, Sep. 02, 2004.

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