How to format your references using the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dynamical and Control 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

1. Hellstrom J. Anthropology. Absolute dating of cave art. Science. 2012;336:1387–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Martin P, Parkhurst SM. Development. May the force be with you. Science. 2003;300:63–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Horodecki M, Oppenheim J, Winter A. Partial quantum information. Nature. 2005;436:673–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Anderson TL, Charlson RJ, Schwartz SE, Knutti R, Boucher O, Rodhe H, et al. Atmospheric science. Climate forcing by aerosol--a hazy picture. Science. 2003;300:1103–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Das JC. Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Muñoz-Ávila H, Ricci F, editors. Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2005, Chicago, IL, USA, August 23-26, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Billadeau DD. Vav Proteins in Cancer. In: Golen K, editor. The Rho GTPases in Cancer. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 77–92.

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 Dynamical and Control Systems.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Robot Rights: At What Point Should An Intelligent Machine Be Considered A “Person’? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: The Financial Viability of Amtrak Continues to Be Threatened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-97-94.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Haghighat R. An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Pilon M. With Team Skating, it’s Now Kiss, Cry, Squeeze in. New York Times. 2014 Feb 9;SP1.

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 Dynamical and Control Systems
Abbreviation	J. Dyn. Control Syst.
ISSN (print)	1079-2724
ISSN (online)	1573-8698
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Algebra and Number Theory Control and Optimization Numerical Analysis