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

Nafie LA (2013) Physical chemistry: handedness detected by microwaves. Nature 497:446–448

A journal article with 2 authors

Lessard J, Sauvageau G (2003) Bmi-1 determines the proliferative capacity of normal and leukaemic stem cells. Nature 423:255–260

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin DY-W, Huang S, Chen J (2015) Crystal structures of a polypeptide processing and secretion transporter. Nature 523:425–430

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hasper HE, Kramer NE, Smith JL, et al (2006) An alternative bactericidal mechanism of action for lantibiotic peptides that target lipid II. Science 313:1636–1637

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clayton LA (2010) Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Feldman AM (2006) Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Akkermans B (2014) Property Law. In: Hage J, Akkermans B (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 71–99

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

Luntz S (2014) Strange Radio Signals Mystify Astronomers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-radio-signals-mystify-astronomers/. 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 (2013) GPS Disruptions: Efforts to Assess Risks to Critical Infrastructure and Coordinate Agency Actions Should Be Enhanced. 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

Powell BD (2009) An ethnographic case study of teachers who are alumni of the private day school for boys in which they teach. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

St. John Kelly E (1994) CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times 732

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

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