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. Scientists, we need your swords! Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5874), 312.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, L. S., & Lankford, W. F. (2015). Sustainability: Clean cooking empowers women. Nature, 521(7552), 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimizu, G. K. H., Taylor, J. M., & Kim, S. (2013). Chemistry. Proton conduction with metal-organic frameworks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6144), 354–355.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, T., Kapustin, E. A., Yin, S. X., Liang, L., Zhou, Z., Niu, J., et al. (2018). Single-crystal x-ray diffraction structures of covalent organic frameworks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6397), 48–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., & Grossman, S. (2007). Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sharvit, K., & Halperin, E. (Eds.). (2016). A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Privat, M., & Warner, R. (2011). Working with Data Objects. In R. Warner (Ed.), Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (pp. 133–186). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, January 29). Black Holes Sizes Follow A Formula. 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. (1990). Higher Education: Gaps in Parents’ and Students’ Knowledge of School Costs and Federal Aid (No. PEMD-90-20BR). 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

Verderame, N. (2013). An educational curriculum for registered dietitians to educate obese patients on the nutrition approach for stress management (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cooper, M., & Pogrebin, R. (2017, September 12). Foam, Armor and Nights at the Museum: Protecting Florida’s Art From Irma. New York Times, p. A14.

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; Brown and Lankford 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Lankford 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2018)

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