How to format your references using the International Journal of Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of 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	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

Paytan, A. (2012). Geochemistry. Mountains, weathering, and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6070), 810–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Souza, A. M. C., & Andrade, R. F. S. (2013). Coin state properties in quantum walks. Scientific Reports, 3, 1976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soroceanu, L., Akhavan, A., & Cobbs, C. S. (2008). Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nature, 455(7211), 391–395.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clark, J. M., Xu, X., Forster, C. A., & Wang, Y. (2004). A Middle Jurassic “sphenosuchian” from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull. Nature, 430(7003), 1021–1024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albalate, A., & Minker, W. (2013). Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Janas, J., Kurasov, P., Laptev, A., & Naboko, S. (Eds.). (2013). Operator Methods in Mathematical Physics: Conference on Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics (OTAMP) 2010, Bedlewo, Poland (Vol. 227). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Caesar, M., & Crush, J. (2016). Food Access and Insecurity in a Supermarket City. In J. Crush & J. Battersby (Eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (pp. 47–58). Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Control.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 13). Could Squid And Chips Become The New National Dish Of Great Britain? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-squid-and-chips-become-the-new-national-dish-of-great-britain/

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. (2014). Railroad Retirement Board: Total and Permanent Disability Program at Risk of Improper Payments (GAO-14-418). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pulukkunat, D. (2008). Biochemical Studies on Archaeal Ribonuclease P Reveal Thematic Convergence in Protein-Facilitated RNA Catalysis [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Hollander, S. (2000, May 28). Syracuse and Princeton Survive to Reach Final. New York Times, 88.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Paytan, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Paytan, 2012; Souza & Andrade, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Souza & Andrade, 2013)
Three authors: (Soroceanu et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Clark et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Control
Abbreviation	Int. J. Control
ISSN (print)	0020-7179
ISSN (online)	1366-5820
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering