How to format your references using the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 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]

Komander, D., “Biochemistry. Details of Destruction, One Molecule at a Time,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 348, No. 6231, 2015, pp. 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yan, J., and Aldrich, R. W., “LRRC26 Auxiliary Protein Allows BK Channel Activation at Resting Voltage without Calcium,” Nature, Vol. 466, No. 7305, 2010, pp. 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Simon, P., Gogotsi, Y., and Dunn, B., “Materials Science. Where Do Batteries End and Supercapacitors Begin?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 343, No. 6176, 2014, pp. 1210–1211.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Keller, P. J., Schmidt, A. D., Wittbrodt, J., and Stelzer, E. H. K., “Reconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 322, No. 5904, 2008, pp. 1065–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Waigh, T. A., “The Physics of Living Processes,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Toi, V. V., Toan, N. B., Dang Khoa, T. Q., and Lien Phuong, T. H., Eds., “4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gotoh, T., Nakano, T., Shiga, Y., and Watanabe, Y., “Energy Dissipation and Pressure in 4d Turbulence,” IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, September, 11-14, 2006, edited by Y. Kaneda, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008, pp. 27–34.

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 Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., “Engineers Shutdown Sexist STEM Stereotypes Using #ILookLikeAnEngineer,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Aug 05 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/excellent-engineers-shutdown-sexist-stem-stereotypes-using-ilooklikeanengineer/

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 Information Technology: Important Initiatives Begun, Yet Serious Vulnerabilities Persist,” GAO-01-550T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, April 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Djajalaksana, Y. M., “A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation,” Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2011.

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]

Billard, M., “Putting It Together, Piece by Piece,” New York Times, Sep 30 2010, p. E6.

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 Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
Abbreviation	J. Guid. Control Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0731-5090
ISSN (online)	1533-3884
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics