How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wickware, P. (2000) Postdocs reject academic research. Nature, 407, 429–430.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe, R. & Noji, H. (2014) Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation. Sci. Rep., 4, 4962.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacDonald, M.P., Spalding, G.C., & Dholakia, K. (2003) Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice. Nature, 426, 421–424.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okada, Y., Scott, G., Ray, M.K., Mishina, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2007) Histone demethylase JHDM2A is critical for Tnp1 and Prm1 transcription and spermatogenesis. Nature, 450, 119–123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forshaw, M. (2006) Understanding Headaches and Migraines. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Latimer, J.S., Tedesco, M.A., Swanson, R.L., Yarish, C., Stacey, P.E., & Garza, C. (2014) Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea. , Springer Series on Environmental Management. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smyth, J., Down, B., & McInerney, P. (2014) Socially Critical School/Community Relations. The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back, Explorations of Educational Purpose (Down, B. & McInerney, P. eds). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 69–91.

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 IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) What Causes Necrotising Fasciitis, The Flesh-Eating Bug? IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-causes-necrotising-fasciitis-flesh-eating-bug/.

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

Government Accountability Office (1989) Automated Systems: Legislative Branch Opportunity for Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems ( No. IMTEC-89-23). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Freedman, R. (2014) Assessing the functional recovery and connectivity potential of restored estuaries in southern California using juvenile predator fish movements (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Cooper, M. (2017) German Home For Alan Gilbert. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware, 2000; Watanabe & Noji, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Watanabe & Noji, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Okada et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
Abbreviation	IMA J. Math. Control Inform.
ISSN (print)	0265-0754
ISSN (online)	1471-6887
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Applied Mathematics Control and Optimization