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

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

Knight D (2007) Kinds of minds. Nature 447:149

A journal article with 2 authors

McEvoy MA, Correll N (2015) Materials science. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication. Science 347:1261689

A journal article with 3 authors

Rees M, Koppelman B, Davison N (2010) Scientific steps to nuclear disarmament. Nature 465:290–291

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watanabe R, Soga N, Yamanaka T, Noji H (2014) High-throughput formation of lipid bilayer membrane arrays with an asymmetric lipid composition. Sci Rep 4:7076

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR (2009) Fundraising Law Made Easy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Konagaya A, Satou K (2005) Grid Computing in Life Science: First International Workshop on Life Science Grid, LSGRID 2004, Kanazawa, Japan, May 31-June 1, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Brinks R, Busch M (2007) Local Compensation for Respiratory Motion in List-mode PET. In: Buzug TM, Holz D, Bongartz J, et al (eds) Advances in Medical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–36

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 Dynamics and Control.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Million-Year-Old Monkey Fossil Discovered In Underwater Cave. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2010) Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain. 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

Beck NA (2017) Mobile Apps for Cognitive Restructuring: A Review and Comparative Analysis. 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

Saslow L (2007) Roslyn Chooses New Schools Superintendent. New York Times LI2

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	International Journal of Dynamics and Control
Abbreviation	Int. J. Dyn. Contr.
ISSN (print)	2195-268X
ISSN (online)	2195-2698
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Control and Optimization Modelling and Simulation