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

Gitlin JD (2006) Plant science. Distributing nutrition. Science 314:1252–1253

A journal article with 2 authors

Benton MJ, Ayala FJ (2003) Dating the tree of life. Science 300:1698–1700

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong CP, Luo S, Zhang Z (2000) MICROELECTRONICS: Flip the Chip. Science 290:2269–2270

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Y-L, Wang H, Jing L, et al (2014) Fitting magnetic field gradient with Heisenberg-scaling accuracy. Sci Rep 4:7390

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xu QA, Madden TL (2011) Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gruijter JJ de (2006) Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Manmana SR, Rodriguez K, Muramatsu A (2008) Simulations of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems out of Equilibrium. In: Nagel WE, Kröner D, Resch M (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering `07: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–81

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

Taub B (2016) Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Who Is The Best Superhero. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-may-have-finally-figured-out-who-is-the-best-superhero/. 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 (1977) Improved Reporting Needed on National Aeronautics and Space Administration Projects. 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

Zhang Y (2013) Crossroads A World War II story. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Justices Uphold State Rules In Decision on Dam Licenses. New York Times A18

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