How to format your references using the Journal of Process Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Process Control. 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	Download the output style file
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]

N. Harris, Immunology: Chronic effects of acute infections, Nature 526 (2015) 509–510.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.R. Piperno, H.-D. Sues, Paleontology. Dinosaurs dined on grass, Science 310 (2005) 1126–1128.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.J. Lynch, G. May, G.P. Wagner, Regulatory evolution through divergence of a phosphoswitch in the transcription factor CEBPB, Nature 480 (2011) 383–386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.T. Laporte, J.A. Stabach, R. Grosch, T.S. Lin, S.J. Goetz, Expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa, Science 316 (2007) 1451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Seabridge, S. Morgan, Air Travel and Health, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

C. Ebert, Best Practices in Software Measurement: How to use metrics to improve project and process performance, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Gao, C. Xing, G. Wang, Channel Estimation for PLNC Under Time-Selective Fading Scenario, in: C. Xing, G. Wang (Eds.), Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 59–77.

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 Process Control.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Horizons Provides A New View Of Pluto And Charon, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-provides-new-view-pluto-and-its-largest-moon/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Sustained Attention Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.R. Pratt, Analysis of the thermo-mechanical characteristics of the LENS^TM process for steels using the finite element method, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2009.

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]

J. Risen, Trump Can Target Journalists, Thanks to Obama, New York Times (2016) SR3.

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 Process Control
Abbreviation	J. Process Control
ISSN (print)	0959-1524
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Modelling and Simulation