How to format your references using the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Malartre, E., 2000, “Words, Words, Words,” Nature, 406(6798), p. 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Spergel, D., and Keating, B., 2015, “Cosmology: The Oldest Cosmic Light,” Nature, 518(7538), pp. 170–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dick, H. J. B., Lin, J., and Schouten, H., 2003, “An Ultraslow-Spreading Class of Ocean Ridge,” Nature, 426(6965), pp. 405–412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wang, C., He, Q., Halim, U., Liu, Y., Zhu, E., Lin, Z., Xiao, H., Duan, X., Feng, Z., Cheng, R., Weiss, N. O., Ye, G., Huang, Y.-C., Wu, H., Cheng, H.-C., Shakir, I., Liao, L., Chen, X., Goddard, W. A., III, Huang, Y., and Duan, X., 2018, “Monolayer Atomic Crystal Molecular Superlattices,” Nature, 555(7695), pp. 231–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Martinelli, R. J., and Milosevic, D. Z., 2015, Project Management ToolBox, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Pavlov, A., 2008, CMOS SRAM Circuit Design and Parametric Test in Nano-Scaled Technologies: Process-Aware SRAM Design and Test, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rapoport, M., Lhoták, O., and Tip, F., 2015, “Precise Data Flow Analysis in the Presence of Correlated Method Calls,” Static Analysis: 22nd International Symposium, SAS 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings, S. Blazy, and T. Jensen, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54–71.

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 Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “Demand For Agricultural Goods Drives Shocking Rates Of Illegal Deforestation,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/demand-agricultural-goods-driving-shocking-rates-illegal-deforestation/. [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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1994, SSA Services to Employers, HEHS-95-38R, 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

[1]

Seger, J. L., 2017, “The Occupy Movement: Signs of Cultural Shifts in Group Processes Shaped by Place,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

[1]

Branch, J., 2016, “Short, Hard Climb (So He Hoped),” New York Times, p. D1.

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	Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
Abbreviation	J. Dyn. Syst. Meas. Control
ISSN (print)	0022-0434
ISSN (online)	1528-9028
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation