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

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

J. Burrows, “Microbiology: Malaria runs rings round artemisinin,” Nature, vol. 520, no. 7549, pp. 628–630, Apr. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. V. Gorbunova and N. C. Spitzer, “Dynamic interactions of cyclic AMP transients and spontaneous Ca(2+) spikes,” Nature, vol. 418, no. 6893, pp. 93–96, Jul. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Lehmann, A. D. Jackson, and B. E. Lautrup, “Measures for measures,” Nature, vol. 444, no. 7122, pp. 1003–1004, Dec. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Bauch, K. Darling, J. Simstich, H. A. Bauch, H. Erlenkeuser, and D. Kroon, “Palaeoceanographic implications of genetic variation in living North Atlantic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma,” Nature, vol. 424, no. 6946, pp. 299–302, Jul. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Broome, Weighing Goods. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

D. A. Hope, Ed., Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities, vol. 54. in Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol. 54. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. J. Teoh, T.-L. Chen, and C.-H. Cheng, “Frequency-Weighted Fuzzy Time-Series Based on Fibonacci Sequence for TAIEX Forecasting,” in Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers, T. Washio, Z.-H. Zhou, J. Z. Huang, X. Hu, J. Li, C. Xie, J. He, D. Zou, K.-C. Li, and M. M. Freire, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 27–34.

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 Control Systems Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Physicists Recreate Substance Similar To The Plasma Believed To Have Existed At The Very Beginning Of The Universe,” IFLScience, Sep. 04, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/tiniest-liquid-also-hottest-ever-created-lab/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Grant Programs: Design Features Shape Flexibility, Accountability, and Performance Information,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GGD-98-137, Jun. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Forlano, “When code meets place: Collaboration and innovation at WiFi hotspots,” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2008.

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]

J. Anderson, “The Documentary Left Looks to the Right,” New York Times, p. AR15, Mar. 17, 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]–[4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Control Syst. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1063-6536
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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