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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Scully T (2014) Public health: Society at large. Nature 508:S50-1

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos JB, Ricklefs RE (2009) Adaptation and diversification on islands. Nature 457:830–836

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield DE, Poulton SW, Narbonne GM (2007) Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science 315:92–95

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Scott IC, Blitz IL, Pappano WN, et al (2001) Homologues of Twisted gastrulation are extracellular cofactors in antagonism of BMP signalling. Nature 410:475–478

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W (2015) Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Zhang Y-J (2015) Image and Graphics: 8th International Conference, ICIG 2015, Tianjin, China, August 13-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Van de Ven A (2011) Chern Classes and Complex Manifolds. In: Martinelli E (ed) Classi caratteristiche e questioni connesse. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 189–219

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

Fang J (2014) New Species Of Snail Named For Marriage Equality. In: IFLScience. 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 (2013) Aviation: Status of DOT’s Actions to Address the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee’s Recommendations. 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

Yu B (2013) Periodic Motions and Bifurcation Tree in a Periodically Excited Oscillator with Quadratic Nonlinearity. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Cooper M (2017) German Home For Alan Gilbert. New York Times C4

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