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]

L. Trainor, “Science & music: the neural roots of music,” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7195, pp. 598–599, May 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. M. Nadeau and D. Dolenc, “Nonvolcanic tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5708, p. 389, Jan. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. Harwit, and M. Harwit, “Astronomy. Laser telemetry from space,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5581, p. 523, Jul. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Micheli et al., “Non-gravitational acceleration in the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua),” Nature, vol. 559, no. 7713, pp. 223–226, Jul. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Alsop, Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Dietel, C. Wittekind, G. Bussolati, and M. von Winterfeld, Eds., Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology, vol. 199. in Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol. 199. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. M. Rizzo et al., “Endogenous Antioxidants and Radical Scavengers,” in Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors, M. T. Giardi, G. Rea, and B. Berra, Eds., in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2010, pp. 52–67.

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]

S. Luntz, “Camel Antibodies Guide Therapies To Tumors,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/camel-antibodies-guide-treatments-tumors/

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, “Student Enrollment and Attendance Reports in the Boston Public School System Are Substantially Accurate,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-76-146, Jul. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Savvas, “Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 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]

C. Kelly, “Cortlandt to Offer Plan To Lower Fuel Oil Costs,” New York Times, p. WE6, Sep. 28, 2008.

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