How to format your references using the Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kaiser, R. (2006). Flowers and fungi use scents to mimic each other. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 806–807.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hong, S., & Asai, T. (2014). Effect of panel shape of soccer ball on its flight characteristics. Scientific reports, 4, 5068.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs, A. M., Gosset, D., & Webb, Z. (2013). Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6121), 791–794.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ramaswamy, V., Schwarzkopf, M. D., Randel, W. J., Santer, B. D., Soden, B. J., & Stenchikov, G. L. (2006). Anthropogenic and natural influences in the evolution of lower stratospheric cooling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5764), 1138–1141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakshi, A. B., & Prasanna, V. K. (2007). Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Palamidessi, C., & Ryan, M. D. (Eds.). (2013). Trustworthy Global Computing: 7th International Symposium, TGC 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, September 7-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8191). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beck, M., & Geoghegan, R. (2010). Recursion. In R. Geoghegan (Ed.), The Art of Proof: Basic Training for Deeper Mathematics (pp. 33–45). New York, NY: 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 Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 19). Check Out These Amazing Photos Of SpaceX’s Latest Super-Accurate Rocket Landing. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-these-amazing-photos-of-spacexs-latest-rocket-landing/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2015). Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations (No. GAO-16-204T). Washington, DC: 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

Wells, R. E. (2008). Managers’ affective expressions as determinants of employee responses to change: Valence, inappropriateness and authenticity (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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, July 22). Jones Inlet to Be Dredged Despite Money Dispute. New York Times, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hong and Asai 2014; Kaiser 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hong and Asai 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ramaswamy et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems
ISSN (print)	2195-3880
ISSN (online)	2195-3899
Scope	Computer Science Applications Energy Engineering and Power Technology Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering