How to format your references using the Control Engineering Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Control Engineering Practice. 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

Makovicky, E. (2007). Comment on “Decagonal and quasi-crystalline tilings in medieval Islamic architecture.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1383; author reply 1383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., & Bradford, M. (2006). 2006 Visualization Challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bizzarro, M., Baker, J. A., & Haack, H. (2004). Mg isotope evidence for contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions. Nature, 431(7006), 275–278.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Vita, H., Böttcher, S., Horn, K., Voloshina, E. N., Ovcharenko, R. E., Kampen, T., Thissen, A., & Dedkov, Y. S. (2014). Understanding the origin of band gap formation in graphene on metals: graphene on Cu/Ir(111). Scientific Reports, 4, 5704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghosh, A., & Berg, S. (2014). Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Madhavan, G., Oakley, B., Green, D., Koon, D., & Low, P. (Eds.). (2013). Practicing Sustainability. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Naunheimer, H., Bertsche, B., Ryborz, J., & Novak, W. (2011). Matching Engine and Transmission. In B. Bertsche, J. Ryborz, & W. Novak (Eds.), Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application (pp. 115–139). Springer.

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 Control Engineering Practice.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 18). Ancient Cave Art Records Fascinating Evolution Of European Bison. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-cave-art-records-fascinating-evolution-of-european-bison/

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. (1997). Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Financial Viability Continues to Be Threatened (T-RCED-97-80). 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

Sink, R. C. (2010). Exploring a high school community relations and parent involvement program [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Johnson, G. (2017, August 22). Awakenings. New York Times, BR13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Makovicky, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Makovicky, 2007; Nesbit & Bradford, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit & Bradford, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Vita et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Control Engineering Practice
Abbreviation	Control Eng. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0967-0661
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics