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 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

Bohannon, J. (2008). The Gonzo Scientist. Play it again, robot. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tigaret, C., & Choquet, D. (2009). Neuroscience. More AMPAR garnish. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1295–1296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meschke, M., Guichard, W., & Pekola, J. P. (2006). Single-mode heat conduction by photons. Nature, 444(7116), 187–190.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hu, B., Wang, L., Ye, W.-C., & Yao, Z.-P. (2013). In vivo and real-time monitoring of secondary metabolites of living organisms by mass spectrometry. Scientific reports, 3, 2104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Madden, B. J. (2010). Wealth Creation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mikhailov, A. V. (Ed.). (2009). Integrability (Vol. 767). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor, L. D. (2010). Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996–1999. In H. S. Houthakker (Ed.), Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior (pp. 89–106). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, December 12). Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million Each Year By 2050, Overtaking Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2005). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-06-199R). 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

Bujarbarua, V. (2015). Production Optimization Using an In-Situ Steam Generator in a Rejuvenated Heavy Oil Field (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kelly, D. (2001, February 4). The A List. New York Times, p. 713.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2008; Tigaret and Choquet 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tigaret and Choquet 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2013)

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