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]

G.F. Hatfull, Microbiology. A tail of two specifi-cities, Science 295 (2002) 2031–2032.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.J. Martin, G.R. Mundy, Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded?, Nature 445 (2007) E19; discussion E19-20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Klein, E. Efrati, E. Sharon, Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics, Science 315 (2007) 1116–1120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.A. Williams, P.T.M. Veenhuizen, B.G. de la Torre, R. Eritja, C. Dekker, Nanotechnology: carbon nanotubes with DNA recognition, Nature 420 (2002) 761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Heritier, E. Cantoni, S. Copt, M.-P. Victoria-Feser, Robust Methods in Biostatistics: Heritier/Robust Methods in Biostatistics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

F. Azevedo, P. Barahona, F. Fages, F. Rossi, eds., Recent Advances in Constraints: 11th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Contraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2006, Caparica, Portugal, June 26-28, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Å. Grönlund, I. Susha, A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative, in: E. Tambouris, A. Macintosh, Ø. Sæbø (Eds.), Electronic Participation: 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EPart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 37–48.

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, Dispersants Sprayed In Wake Of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill More Toxic Than Oil Alone, IFLScience (2015).

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, Comments on Use of Funds from Vending Machines, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1954.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I.M. Carter, The discourse of the divine: Radical traditions of Black feminism, musicking, and myth within the Black public sphere (Civil Rights to the present), Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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. Robbins, A.G. Sulzberger, Onboard Device Could Offer Clue to Montana Crash, New York Times (2009) A21.

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