How to format your references using the Annual Reviews in Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Reviews in 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 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

Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2002). Grammar: the barest essentials. Nature, 416(6877), 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Littman, D. R., & Singh, H. (2007). Immunology. Asymmetry and immune memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1673–1674.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beaber, J. W., Hochhut, B., & Waldor, M. K. (2004). SOS response promotes horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes. Nature, 427(6969), 72–74.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Anderson, M. A., O’Shea, T. M., Burda, J. E., Ao, Y., Barlatey, S. L., Bernstein, A. M., Kim, J. H., James, N. D., Rogers, A., Kato, B., Wollenberg, A. L., Kawaguchi, R., Coppola, G., Wang, C., Deming, T. J., He, Z., Courtine, G., & Sofroniew, M. V. (2018). Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury. Nature, 561(7723), 396–400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chevallier, J., & Ielpo, F. (2013). The Economics of Commodity Markets. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Prohens, J., & Nuez, F. (Eds.). (2008). Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and Cucurbitaceae (Vol. 1). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wood, L. F., & Foote, M. (2009). Document review. In L. F. Wood & M. Foote (Eds.), Targeted Regulatory Writing Techniques: Clinical Documents for Drugs and Biologics (pp. 45–50). Birkhäuser.

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 Annual Reviews in Control.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, April 29). A Recent Supernova Was As Bright As One Hundred Million Suns. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/recent-supernova-was-bright-one-hundred-million-sun-exploding/

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. (2002). Highway Research: Systematic Selection and Evaluation Processes Needed for Research Program (GAO-02-573). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krau, C. F. (2008). A case study of congregational design and implementation of adult Christian education [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, August 21). Sempra Bid Tops Buffett in Billionaires’ Race for Energy Future. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Piattelli-Palmarini, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Littman & Singh, 2007; Piattelli-Palmarini, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Littman & Singh, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Reviews in Control
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Control
ISSN (print)	1367-5788
Scope	Software Control and Systems Engineering