How to format your references using the Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics of Control, Signals, and 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

Webster PJ (2013) Meteorology: Improve weather forecasts for the developing world. Nature 493:17–19

A journal article with 2 authors

Michalski JR, Bleacher JE (2013) Supervolcanoes within an ancient volcanic province in Arabia Terra, Mars. Nature 502:47–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee H, Lee BP, Messersmith PB (2007) A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos. Nature 448:338–341

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meng L, Zhang Y, Wan X, et al (2018) Organic and solution-processed tandem solar cells with 17.3% efficiency. Science 361:1094–1098

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chakrabarty P (2012) A Guide to Academia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Ludwigs S (2014) P3HT Revisited – From Molecular Scale to Solar Cell Devices. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bain A, Crisan D (2009) Uniqueness of the Solution to the Zakai and the Kushner–Stratonovich Equations. In: Crisan D (ed) Fundamentals of Stochastic Filtering. Springer, New York, NY, pp 95–126

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 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Spectacular New Images Of Pluto’s Moon Charon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-s-moon-charon-you-ve-never-seen-it/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1981) Increased Federal Telecommunications System Use by Strengthened Control Over Commercial Toll Calls Could Reduce Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bradnan DM (2015) Cherelle Wilt in Theobroma cacao. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Sisario B (2017) One Direction Ties A Beatles Record. New York Times C3

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	Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
Abbreviation	Math. Control Signals Systems
ISSN (print)	0932-4194
ISSN (online)	1435-568X
Scope	Signal Processing Control and Systems Engineering Applied Mathematics Control and Optimization