How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 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]

G. Frenking, “Another noble gas conquered,” Nature, vol. 406, no. 6798, pp. 836–837, Aug. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. F. Camerer and E. Fehr, “When does ‘economic man’ dominate social behavior?,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5757, pp. 47–52, Jan. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. D. Schreiber, L. J. Old, and M. J. Smyth, “Cancer immunoediting: integrating immunity’s roles in cancer suppression and promotion,” Science, vol. 331, no. 6024, pp. 1565–1570, Mar. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Ma et al., “Ventricular hypertrophy blocked delayed anesthetic cardioprotection in rats by alteration of iNOS/COX-2 signaling,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7071, Nov. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-J. Wang, Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Bringa and H. Toje, Eds., Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse. in Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Jeon, K. Draney, and M. Wilson, “A General Saltus LLTM-R for Cognitive Assessments,” in Quantitative Psychology Research: The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, R. E. Millsap, D. M. Bolt, L. A. van der Ark, and W.-C. Wang, Eds., in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 73–90.

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 Transactions on Automatic Control.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Archaeologists Believe They Have Found Mysterious Concealed Chambers Inside Tutankhamun’s Tomb,” 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, “Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act’s Requirements,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-312T, Dec. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. L. Stuehling, “‘We Speak “Hola” In School’: A Case Study of Global Education in a Partial-Immersion Spanish Preschool,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2017.

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. Haberman, M. Mazzetti, and M. Apuzzo, “Kushner is Said to Have Mulled Russia Channel,” New York Times, p. A1, May 27, 2017.

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 Transactions on Automatic Control
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr.
ISSN (print)	0018-9286
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering