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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Reinventing the silk road. Nature, 428(6979), 236–237.

A journal article with 2 authors

England, P. C., & Katz, R. F. (2010). Melting above the anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs. Nature, 467(7316), 700–703.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, R., Mason, A., & members of the NTA Network. (2014). Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 229–234.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Loveday, J. S., Nelmes, R. J., Guthrie, M., Belmonte, S. A., Allan, D. R., Klug, D. D., Tse, J. S., & Handa, Y. P. (2001). Stable methane hydrate above 2 GPa and the source of Titan’s atmospheric methane. Nature, 410(6829), 661–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noldus, R. (2006). CAMEL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chowdhry, B. S., Shaikh, F. K., Hussain, D. M. A., & Uqaili, M. A. (Eds.). (2012). Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies: Second International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2012, Jamshoro, Pakistan, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 281). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeom, K.-W. (2007). Immune-inspired Algorithm for Anomaly Detection. In N. Nedjah, A. Abraham, & L. de M. Mourelle (Eds.), Computational Intelligence in Information Assurance and Security (pp. 129–154). Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 6). What Does Pi Sound Like? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-does-pi-sound/

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). GAO’s Views on SDIO’s Phase I Cost Estimate (T-NSIAD-89-18). 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

Helgoe, C. A. (2008). The impact of federal policy on teachers’ use of science manipulatives: A survey of teacher philosophy and practices [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Sisario, B. (2017, April 19). Bill Murray’s Latest Surprise Career Turn. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (England & Katz, 2010; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (England & Katz, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Loveday et al., 2001)

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