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. Mellman I. Setting logical priorities. Nature. 2001;410:1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yuspa SH, Epstein EH Jr. Cancer. An anchor for tumor cell invasion. Science. 2005;307:1727–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lind G, Linsmeier CE, Schouenborg J. The density difference between tissue and neural probes is a key factor for glial scarring. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2942.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Knox K, Carrigan D, Simmons G, Teque F, Zhou Y, Hackett J Jr, et al. No evidence of murine-like gammaretroviruses in CFS patients previously identified as XMRV-infected. Science. 2011;333:94–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. da Silva FSC, Agustí-Cullell J. Knowledge Coordination. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Sussman RW, Cloninger CR, editors. Origins of Altruism and Cooperation. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. De Neve W, Wu Y, Ezzell G. Practical IMRT Planning. In: Bortfeld T, Schmidt-Ullrich R, Neve WD, Wazer DE, editors. Image-Guided IMRT. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 47–59.

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. Fang J. Tiniest Insect Genome Sequenced [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiniest-insect-genome-sequenced/

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. VA Education Benefits: Actions Taken, but Outreach and Oversight Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Feb. Report No.: GAO-11-256.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Liyakath RA. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2012.

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. Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Oct 26;C23.

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