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. Janin J. Biochemistry. Dicey assemblies. Science. 2008;319:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dominé F, Shepson PB. Air-snow interactions and atmospheric chemistry. Science. 2002;297:1506–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Martens JA, Laprade L, Winston F. Intergenic transcription is required to repress the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SER3 gene. Nature. 2004;429:571–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hoffman N, Knauth LP, Klonowski S, Burt D, Saunders RS, Zurek RW, et al. Ideas about the surface runoff features on Mars. Science. 2000;290:711c–4c.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schwartz R. Rethinking Pragmatism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Zaidi MK, Mustafaev I, editors. Radiation Safety Problems in the Caspian Region. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ishikawa F, Saito Y, Yoshida S, Harada M, Shultz LD. The Differentiative and Regenerative Properties of Human Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor cells in NOD-SCID/IL2rγnull Mice. In: Nomura T, Watanabe T, Habu S, editors. Humanized Mice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 87–94.

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. Luntz S. Mountain Range’s Collapse May Have Supercharged Evolution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/mountain-ranges-collapse-supercharged-evolution/

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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Oct. Report No.: AA-95-33(4).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Blazer AE. “I Am Otherwise”: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2003.

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. Poniewozik J. A Hero’s Journey Is a Real Head Trip. New York Times. 2017 Feb 7;C1.

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