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. Lewis R. Driving back diabetes. Nature. 2004;430:1064–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cuervo R, Chimal-Monroy J. Chemical activation of RARβ induces post-embryonically bilateral limb duplication during Xenopus limb regeneration. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Maini PK, Baker RE, Chuong C-M. Developmental biology. The Turing model comes of molecular age. Science. 2006;314:1397–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Johnnidis JB, Harris MH, Wheeler RT, Stehling-Sun S, Lam MH, Kirak O, et al. Regulation of progenitor cell proliferation and granulocyte function by microRNA-223. Nature. 2008;451:1125–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Troppens U, Erkens R, Müller W. Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

1. Dix J, Hegner SJ, editors. Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 4th International Symposium, FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Februrary 14-17, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kruger K, Basson A. Implementation of an Erlang-Based Resource Holon for a Holonic Manufacturing Cell. In: Borangiu T, Thomas A, Trentesaux D, editors. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 49–58.

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. Andrew E. On brown dwarfs, storms of molten iron are always forecast [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/brown-dwarfs-storms-molten-iron-are-always-forecast/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Mar. Report No.: GAO-03-317.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Koyanagi T. Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2017.

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. Kelly DA. Fun if by Land and Fun if by Sea. New York Times. 2005 Aug 21;512.

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